Thanks. I have already built mine, but it is anything but portable. Although this Liberator looks quite much like my first scanner. The only problem is that it is hardly suitable to digitizing delicate documents or manuscripts. BTW, my url somehow disappered from my message, it was http://www.diybookscanner.org/

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Orion Montoya <gorion@gmail.com> wrote:

http://bkrpr.org/doku.php is a project to make a fairly compact book scanning machine for ~$300 including camera. It's not quite super-portable but it's pretty close.

On Oct 26, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Maxim Romanov wrote:

Dear Dot,

You should take a look at where people discuss and build different types of scanning/digitalizing machines, including portable ones meant to be used in archives. You can find some are really nice designs there, as well as software that people use to process those images.

Best regards,

Maxim G. Romanov

Doctoral Student in Arabic & Islamic Studies

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Dot Porter <dot.porter@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello list,

Are there any best practices aimed at scholars who wish to take images
of manuscripts "in the field", using their own equipment? I'm thinking
particularly of very remote repositories, that would not have their
own digitization equipment; for a scholar interested in imaging only
one or two manuscripts it might not be reasonable to try to have a
professional set-up (with special book-cradle, special lighting,
etc.). However even in those circumstances it's important to maintain
high quality both in imaging and in metadata. I know for a fact that
there are people doing work like that, hopefully some of them are on
this list. Has anyone actually taken the time to write up best
practices, though?

And if not, perhaps we need some.

Thanks,
Dot

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