This is not exactly a program to follow, but I would recommend looking at the introductory material to various digital editions. I like the stuff on the Electronic Beowulf; things like the "1993 Prospectus" give a good insight into what the world of digitization was like at the beginning, even if lines like these now sound delightfully archaic:
"The equipment we are using to capture the images is the Roche/Kontron ProgRes 3012 digital camera, which can scan any text, from a letter or a word to an entire page, at 2000 x 3000 pixels in 24-bit color. The resulting images at this maximum resolution are enormous, about 21-25 MB, and tax the capabilities of the biggest machines. Three or four images - three or four letters or words if that is what we are scanning - will fill up an 88 MB hard disk, and we have found that no single image of this size can be processed in real time without at least 64 MB of RAM."
Doug
Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen Graduate Student, Medieval Studies Ph.D. Program | Teaching Assistant Department of English Language & Literature doug@unm.edu http://megse.unm.edu/doug/ http://www.unm.edu/~doug (505)615-5810
-----Original Message----- From: dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca [mailto:dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Janusz S. "Bien" Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:18 PM To: Wendy Hoofnagle Cc: dm-l@uleth.ca Subject: Re: [dm-l] advice for student?
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 Wendy Hoofnagle sailordie@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi everyone! I met a photography undergrad here who is doing a paper/presentation on medieval manuscripts for a class and we started
talking
about the wonders of ms. digitization, about which she is keenly
interested.
Does anyone have advice to share with her about how to get started on this
road
(programs, etc)? Thank you in advance for any assistance that you might
be able
to share!
In my opinion a good starting point is using free software to convert scans to DjVu. Here are some links:
http://djvu.org/ http://djvu.sourceforge.net/ http://jwilk.net/software/ http://bc.klf.uw.edu.pl/177/
http://poliqarp.wbl.klf.uw.edu.pl/
Regards
JSB