[WEB4LIB] Scanning text

[Daniel Noonan]

Hi Betty - one simple way would be to use Adobe Acrobat (not the Reader) to
create PDF from the images or scan directly to Acrobat and put the PDF on the
webpage.

Thank -- Dan

Betty Braaksma wrote:

> 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
>

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