Rare book experts join forces to stop tome raiders

Re:Rare book experts join forces to stop tome raiders by majormajor on Sunday May 17, 2015 @10:00PM (#9562565)

What's the state of the art in damageless scanning? Do you still have to rip the pages out in order to get good, fast results?

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Re:Rare book experts join forces to stop tome raiders by db48x on Monday May 18, 2015 @12:01AM (#9562826)

https://archive.org/details/InternetArchive-Tour

This is a video of the Scribe machine that the Internet Archive built for book scanning. It uses two commodity digital cameras to image the pages. The computer driving the process is running Linux and gPhoto. They're also working on a tabletop version, which will be easier for smaller institutions to set up and use.

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Re:Rare book experts join forces to stop tome raiders by userbinator on Sunday May 17, 2015 @10:30PM (#9562638)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning

Using cameras to take pictures of pages seems to be the most "damageless" option.

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