Subj : Copying history
To   : JEAN PARROT
From : Charles Scaglione
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 02:19 am

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 20:33:00 -0400, JEAN PARROT -> CHARLES SCAGLIONE
wrote:

 JP>          I have used that scanner in this "book-reading" way and it
 JP>    turned out quite nice. No need to open up the pages wide, it will
 JP>    reach to the comb with the page opened less than 90ø. This would
 JP>    save Jay's book. But as I said to him...tedious. I faced the same
 JP>    kind of work doing our G‚n‚alogie. I did it piecemeal, took 4 years.
 JP>    Do not let Jay read this ! But I typed it all in, no scan nor OCR. I
 JP>    used Word from Office 2000 for it all then got it to .pdf and locked
 JP>    it. 227 pages. How many Jay has to do again ?

That's quite a  job you did typing it all in by hand.   I believe Jay said
he had around 600 pages to do.

I wonder how the pros do it?  Maybe they have special high resolution
scanners that can copy even with the book almost closed to prevent damage
to the binding.

Nowadays when digitizing books a special compression algorithm is used.  I
have a library of digitized books - mostly Bibles and other Christian
works.  Some of the books are over 1200 pages in length but the digitized
file is around 17 mb.   Quite amazing.

Regards.

chscag at gmail dot com

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