Atiz BookDrive Pro or Book2Net RGB

[Sharon Foster]

I recently worked at a place that used the Atiz DIY setup. I don't know if
the same software drives the DIY and the Pro, but I would advise against
using the software to do any image processing, especially if your final
output is going to be a PDF. Almost any image processing
application--Photoshop, Adobe Elements, Picasa--is going to degrade the
quality of your images, so you want to do it as late in the process as
possible. Zooming in on our older images made aliasing readily apparent.

After I finished tweaking the process, the book scanner software was used
only to crop away the wide black border as the image was captured.
Everything else--color correction, OCR, optimization for the Web--took
place in Adobe Acrobat Pro. (Pricey, like most Adobe products, but you can
get it for a song at Tech Soup.)

The cameras we used captured JPEGs. If you can capture in TIFF, it will be
worth the time to try both formats and see if you can tell the difference
in the final image at, say, 200% zoom.

Sharon
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Sharon M. Foster
Digital Resources Librarian

*"All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man’s
own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on
every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of
that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.*" ~Tom
Paine



On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Sara Amato <samato at willamette.edu> wrote:

> Since there seems to be general interest in the topic, I'll ask my
> questions here.   Keri/Carrie - here's what we would like to know:
>
>
> Overall, are you satisfied with the quality of the scans, and are you
> seeing any particular issues, e.g. glare, difficulty positioning the
> material, speed of processing, resolution, etc.
>
> A few specific questions we’d like addressed are:
>
> Book Positioning - are you able to successfully scan tightly bound
> materials?  Is the book cradle sufficiently adjustable for a range of
> materials/bindings?  Do you feel the system is gentle enough on fragile
> materials?
>
> Have you had any problems scanning the following types of materials: bound
> newspapers, loose photographs, letters (unbound)
>
> Are you using the software included with the scanner to process images?
>  Is it sufficient to the task or do you use additional softare, e.g.
> photoshop?
>
> Any information you can provide much appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>  ====================================
> Sara Amato - samato at willamette.edu
> Digital Asset Management Librarian
> Mark O. Hatfield Library - Willamette University
> 503 370 6719
>
>
>
> On Feb 24, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Keri Cascio wrote:
>
> Hi, Sara, we use an Atiz here at the Linda Hall Library. It's actually my
> digital projects staff that uses it, I haven't had any hands-on time with
> it, I just know the basics.
>
> If you have some written questions, I can pass it on to them. If you'd
> like to talk over the phone, I can see if Nancy Green, Head of Digital
> Projects has time to talk with you.
>
> -Keri
>
> --
> Keri Cascio
> Director, Innovative Technologies and Library Resource Management
> Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology
> kcascio at gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Sara Amato <samato at willamette.edu>wrote:
>
>> I'm hoping to talk talk with someone in a library who is using either of
>>  these scanners:
>>
>> Atiz BookDrive Pro - http://pro.atiz.com/
>> Book2Net RGB - http://book2net.net/en/book-scanner/book2net-rgb.html
>>
>> Please contact me off list if you use either of these and are willing to
>> share your experiences.
>>
>>
>>  ====================================
>> Sara Amato - samato at willamette.edu
>> Digital Asset Management Librarian
>> Mark O. Hatfield Library - Willamette University
>> 503 370 6719
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