You'll certainly be interested on what Wikimedia Argentina is doing with DIY Book Scanners [1].
They tried to submit a Wikimania presentation, but the team behind it's organization simply refused the paper with no further details (sigh). At least, you can check some interesting infos both on [2] and [3].
I'm CC'ing Evelin. She is the person behind this successful approach.
Best, [[m:User:555]]
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[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Argentina/Reportes/2014-02#New_sca...
[2] - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Open_hardware_and_Open_...
[3] - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Submissions/Open_hardware_and_...
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Pierre-Yves Beaudouin < pierre.beaudouin@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Carles,
Wikimedia France bought a bookscanner in June [1]. It is not yet operational but I've tried a similar book scanner. It is easy and very fast (>500p/hour).
Pyb
[1] http://www.bookscanner.fr/about-this-bookscanner.html
2014-09-06 18:20 GMT+02:00 Carles Paredes Lanau carlesparedes@gmail.com:
Hi,
Amical Wikimedia is examining the possibility of purchasing a professional scanner for the digitalization of collections in local libraries.
I have seen this cheap prototype but I dunno if it's the best option:
http://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1192
Have anyone a professional scanner? Any chapter? Have you any recommendation?
Regards,
Carles
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