Message-Id: <mailto:199411251931.NAA19305@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 13:33:12 -0600 From: Mark Olsen <mailto:mark@TUNA.UCHICAGO.EDU> Subject: Microfilm Scanning Services To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
We are planning to scan a series of microfilms of Medieval manuscripts. Has anyone used a company that does high resolution scanning of film? I would appreciate names of companies that perform such tasks, prices (if possible) and comments on the quality of work performed.It may interest readers of this list that I have been experimenting with scans of books for various applications. The first, and most well developed, is our exposition of Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629):
http://tuna.uchicago.edu/Dante/Dante_Ex1.html
The exposition is largely complete and contains the text and images of an exposition put on at the Newberry Library this Spring. It contains about 400 images of editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from 1472 to the early 17th century.
The second is an early French Revolutionary pamphelet displayed as a series of in-line GIFs:
http://tuna.uchicago.edu/images/cahier/contents.html
Please feel free to send comments on both projects to me. I am looking forward to hearing about microfilm scanning.
Thanks in advance.
Mark
Mark Olsen Assistant Director ARTFL Project University of Chicago (312) 702-8687 Gopher: gopher.uchicago.edu/11/uscholarly/artfl WWW: http://tuna.uchicago.edu/ARTFL.html
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