Scanning text

[Betty Braaksma]

Greetings, folks,

I have been lurking on this list for a while and find your hints, tips &
tricks to be very useful, so I'm hoping you'll be able to help me out.

The Thunder Bay Public Library staff are working on a digitization project.
We're scanning lots of historical photos which will be accessible via our
website, and we're pretty comfortable with that whole process.

What's new for us is text scanning. We  would like to scan the contents of
several (public domain) books in non-OCR mode - we're simply doing the
images of the pages. We're not sure how we make the page scans of the book
contents available to users as a single unit, if that makes sense, i.e.
they would click on a link to "Algoma Mines" and then voila, the scanned
book magically appears in its entirety. ;) I know it's do-able, since books
like this are visible all over the Web. But *how* did they do it?

We're using Adobe Photoshop 6.0.

Any advice, help, URLs of resources etc. would be most appreciated. 

thanks much,

Betty Braaksma
Betty Braaksma
Head of Reference Services 
Thunder Bay Public Library
Thunder Bay, Ontario
807-624-4203