[OpenGLAM] Book scanners?

Sun Feb 16 17:16:45 UTC 2014

On 11 February 2014 00:20, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone on this list have any book scanner recommendations (or the
>> opposite)? Budget around £10,000...
>
>
> You'd probably get a few more suggestions if you spelled out your
> requirements in a little more detail.  High volume? (what's high volume to
> you?) Low volume? Destructive or non-destructive? Fragile books?  What size
> books?

In general, this is for scanning historical source data.

Volume: current project is 500,000 pages.
Non-destructive: in at least some cases, the source material is unique.
Fragile: possibly
Size: random, but generally bigger than A4 (probably not bigger than
A3 per page, though).

> etc, etc  Even little things like giving your budget in a commonly
> understood currency could help.

By "commonly understood currency" I guess you mean dollars. $15,000ish.