I have been involved in a planning committee to prepare suggestions for the technology to be used for creating digital facsimiles of the unpublished manuscripts and typescripts of a scholar (although not medieval, but from the 20th century).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 questions, 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 a 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