[Commons-l] Digitisation equipment

[Eugene Zelenko]

Hi!

Just tried this Sunday...

6MP digital SLR camera + tripod is good enough to make images of book
pages for OCR. Speed is ~ 10-15 seconds per page.

However, if you want good quality images, you should use regular
scanner, adjust page position, press book.

Eugene.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Andrew
Turvey<andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with equipment like this, and could you
> recommend anything? Any idea what the price range and quality typically is?
>
> Also, is anyone else in the Wikimedia community currently doing this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ---- Forwarded Message -----
> From: "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp at gmail.com>
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, 23 August, 2009 10:55:32 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland,
> Portugal
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia reaches 3 millionth article
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:15 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I believe they have machines to turn pages, and something to figure
>> out the distorted photo of the book and render it how it would look as
>> a flat page.
>
> Yeah, there are videos of these machines. The book sits open, the
> scanner comes down and scans both open pages at once. As it goes up
> again, it sucks on one page, causing it to flip over. Then repeat.
>
> Oh, look, here you go:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOQuuLYavY
>
> And while we're at it:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning
>
> Steve
>
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