Damage caused by Hand-held scanners

[Peter Murray]

It is a "3000", and it is a pretty nice machine.  We have one in-house for
an electronic journal digitizing project.  The scanner itself does a good
job; the companion software leaves *a lot* to be desired.  Unfortunately,
the setup runs somewhere between $15,000 and $18,000 -- not cheap.  And not
portable; everytime you move it you are supposed to have it recalibrated.


Peter

--On Thu, Jun 26, 1997 2:13 PM -0700 "Kyle Harriss" <kharriss at d.umn.edu>
wrote: 

> One of the interesting digitizers out there now is Minolta's "Epic 3000".
> (Maybe it's Epic 5000.)   It takes an image from above, and corrects for
> spine curvature in the pages...  You don't have to try to hold a book
> flat, and there is no abrasion.   This might be one of the better routes
> to digitizing manuscripts.   



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