<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><style> { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We had a discussion at a recent Wikimedia UK board meeting about potentially buying some digitisation equipment which could be used to generate content for the Wikimedia projects. This recent email to the EN-WP list sparked my interest.<br><br>Does anyone have any experience with equipment like this, and could you recommend anything? Any idea what the price range and quality typically is?<br><br>Also, is anyone else in the Wikimedia community currently doing this?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>---- Forwarded Message -----<br>From: "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp@gmail.com><br>To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br>Sent: Sunday, 23 August, 2009 10:55:32 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal<br>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia reaches 3 millionth article<br><br>On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:15 PM, David Gerard<dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> I believe they have machines to turn pages, and something to figure<br>> out the distorted photo of the book and render it how it would look as<br>> a flat page.<br><br>Yeah, there are videos of these machines. The book sits open, the<br>scanner comes down and scans both open pages at once. As it goes up<br>again, it sucks on one page, causing it to flip over. Then repeat.<br><br>Oh, look, here you go:<br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOQuuLYavY<br><br>And while we're at it:<br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning<br><br>Steve<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>WikiEN-l mailing list<br>WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org<br>To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:<br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l<br></div></div></body></html>