[Foundation-l] Old newspapers going to destruction

[David Gerard]

2008/10/2 Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com>:

> An Irish study gives the neat - but high! - estimate that to digitise
> two years worth of a single newspaper title would take about one year
> and ten staff at a cost of ~300,000 EUR, of which 10% would be capital
> investment. I suspect with software automation this could be heavily
> reduced.
> www.askaboutireland.ie/resources/OCR_DigitisationAndTranscriptionOfNewspapers.pdf


How much would just raw scans cost?


- d.