Re: looking for a scanner for bound materials

From: Lossau (lossau@MAIL.SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 08:33:47 CST

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    From: Lossau <mailto:lossau@MAIL.SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE>
    Subject:      Re: looking for a scanner for bound materials
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    <pre> We use the Minolta PS 7000 (600 dpi, 1 bit) and the Zeutschel Omniscan 7000 (up to 800 dpi for A4, 1 bit + 8 bit greyscale) in our Digitization Center in Goettingen, Germany. There is a special software for production scanning of books, incl. features like editing the TIFF-Header, masking, deskew, crop etc., called SRZ ProScan Book to apply on bothe scanners.

    Have a closer look at: http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gdz/en/gdz_main_en.html#conversion
    (our application) and http://www.agora.de/PrScBk1.htm#Top
    (company/product website)

    It has been developed by the Satz-Rechen-Zentrum company in Berlin, Germany and is priced with about 7.000 DM (ca. 3.500 USD). Maybe there is a bundle price for Scanner + software.

    Norbert Lossau

     There is a good software solution for both the

    On 8 Feb 00 at 14:11, Tim Au Yeung wrote:

    > Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:11:19 -0700
    > Reply-to: IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
    > From: Tim Au Yeung <mailto:ytau@UCALGARY.CA>
    > Subject: Re: looking for a scanner for bound materials
    > To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

    > We've been looking into these kinds of scanners ourselves.
    >
    > Minolta (www.minoltausa.com) has two models:
    >
    > PS3000 - 400 dpi, 11 x 17 bound scanner w/ a greyscale option
    > PS7000 - 600 dpi, 17 x 23 bound scanner - bitonal
    >
    > There is also the Bookeye scanner which is similar to Minolta's PS3000.
    > (www.bookeye.com)
    >
    > Zeutschel also sells book scanners and has 5 or 6 different models including
    > color. (http://www.zeutschel.com/)
    >
    > Generally, the cost starts at $20,000 for the base end models and moves
    > quickly up depending on feature.
    >
    > Tim
    >
    > --------
    > Tim Au Yeung
    > Manager of Digitization Initiatives
    > Information Resources (Press)
    > University of Calgary
    > voice: 403.220.8975
    > email: ytau (at) ucalgary.ca
    >
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: Stuart Glogoff <mailto:stuartg@U.ARIZONA.EDU>
    > To: <mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
    > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 1:44 PM
    > Subject: looking for a scanner for bound materials
    >
    >
    > >
    > >
    > > Thanks for the suggestions re: a quality digital camera for special
    > > collections. New question.
    > >
    > > What about a scanner for handing fragile originals, such as books and
    > > other bound materials. I'm not having luck searching with the web search
    > > engines nor by visiting brand name sites on the web. I know I've seen
    > > them in the past at trade shows and they've been rather pricey.
    > >
    > > Appreciate recommendations and please share ballpark cost information. I
    > > am helping a colleague with a grant proposal -- and of course it's due
    > > in a few days.
    > >
    > > Stuart
    > > *******************************
    > > Stuart Glogoff mailto:stuartg@u.arizona.edu
    > > PO Box 210073, Computer Center 337
    > > 1077 N. Highland Ave.
    > > Tucson, AZ 85721-0073
    > > http://www.library.arizona.edu/sglogoff
    > > *******************************
    > >
    >
    ************ Dr. Norbert Lossau State- und University Library Goettingen Head of the Center for Digitization (GDZ) Subject librarian for Finno-ugrian Studies Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1 37073 Goettingen, Germany Tel.: +49 +551/39-5217 Fax. +49 +551/39-5222 WWW: http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/GDZ E-Mail: mailto:lossau@mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de

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