For texts (books) then I would say use a scanner. I know someone who did this with a anthology of Old English by Conybeare. The facs. was very good. If you use a scanner you can produce pages as fast as the scanner can scan them. Its up to you really! Also, I would suggest using Photoshop for your imaging program, because that's the best available.
Abdullah Alger
Quoting Dieter Köhler d.k@philo.de:
I have been involved in a planning committee to prepare suggestions for t
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technology to be used for creating digital facsimiles of the unpublished manuscripts and typescripts of a scholar (although not medieval, but from the 20th century). After reading some articles and searching the Web for the technical descriptions of similar projects I still have some question
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and I wonder whether someone on this list might be able to give me advice on the following issues:
Which equipment would you recommend for creating 600 dpi color images (TIFF)? Is it better to use a scanner or a digital photo camera for such
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project? The great majority of the pages are on standard type paper (DIN A4 and DIN A5) and do not need special care when handling them.
Using the method you recommended, approx. how many pages can be digitized in one hour?
I appreciate your thoughts.
Dieter Köhler
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