[OpenGLAM] Book scanners?

Sun Feb 16 18:02:11 UTC 2014

On 16 February 2014 17:50, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> On 02/16/2014 06:16 PM, Ben Laurie wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone on this list have any book scanner recommendations (or the
>>>> opposite)? Budget around £10,000...
>>>
>>> Volume: current project is 500,000 pages.
>
>
> With that budget, you hope to do 50 pages per pound,
> which sounds a bit optimistic. Is that your total budget,
> or only your equipment budget? Are man-hours and
> administration included?

Equipment only.

> If you cooperate with the Internet Archive, they offer
> to scan for $0.10 per page, on the condition that the
> digitized works can be openly published online. If the
> pound is $1.50, this will buy you 15 pages per pound.
> They do this at a loss: The money covers the staff to
> do the scanning, but the equipment, administration
> and storage is already paid for by the Internet Archive.
>
> I've heard of several projects that budget £1-5 per page
> for digitization and I think some projects can be done
> for £0.10 per page, but not £0.02 per page.

We should probably look at the Internet Archive deal again.