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Last message to Distscan -- thanks everyone for your participation

Jon Noring — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:52:22 GMT

Everyone, Since no one has raised a "let's reconsider" message to the proposed closing and message archiving of the Distributed Scanners group, this is the

Re: DIY Planetary Scanner.

Nick Hodson — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:21:18 GMT

Could you please be more explicit - what are you talking about? Nick Hodson submitguy505 wrote: Any tips? Has anyone done this on this

DIY Planetary Scanner.

submitguy505 — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:58:17 GMT

Any tips? Has anyone done this on this board? Would you please share your struggles and succeess and picutres of the machine? Estimated cost?

scanner with specific feature

nissanskylinegr — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:31:51 GMT

hello I am looking for a scanner with a specific feature I want a scanner that the edge of its scanning area has no border (or very small border) by 'border' I

Fwd: [BP] book scanning for every small library.

Klaus Graf — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:31:53 GMT

... From: Sarasin Booppanon Date: 02.06.2006 13:22 Subject: [BP] book scanning for every small library. To: spok+bookpeople@...

Re: Canadian PD catalog planned

labradorians — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:11:38 GMT

... With Excess Copyright's involvement, I smell a rat for some reason. I am not sure what resources they have to determine an author's death date, other than

Canadian PD catalog planned

Klaus Graf — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:22:51 GMT

http://www.accesscopyright.ca/resources.asp?a=198 Klaus

GMU Preservation Materials

Klaus Graf — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:59:57 GMT

http://mars.gmu.edu:8080/dspace/handle/1920/232 Each item has a Scanning process information (XML), tiffs are available. Greetings from Germany Klaus

Experiments on sizes of files, tiff and png: a DjVu conversion.

Nick Hodson — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:46:25 GMT

Experiment: to investigate best setting for conversion from tiffs of 256-colour grey-scale images. Conclusion: compression setting 5 (determined by a

Re: First question: What will we accept?

Nick Hodson — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:40:33 GMT

Don't assume that I am only interested in doing the OCR of a book. On the contrary I always create a nice pdf of the book before I start on the OCR. We are

Interesting working group being formed at OCA: Scanning Protocol

Jon Noring — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:22:03 GMT

I've been keeping an eye on the newly-formed Open Content Alliance (administered by the Internet Archive.) It is maturing, bringing in new contributors, and

Re: First question: What will we accept?

Jon Noring — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:14:15 GMT

... Thanks, Nick! We are all appreciative of the experimental work you are doing here. It is definitely producing interesting results that we may use for

Re: First question: What will we accept?

Nick Hodson — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:18:13 GMT

Experiment to determine the best scanning settings for text-only pages Conclusion: scan black-and-white (text) pages at 600 dpi, brightness 15. As I wrote a

PS

labradorians — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:38:35 GMT

I will donate life+50 Canadian Rules copyright clearances.

Hello and O! Canada

labradorians — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:58:27 GMT

1) Hi! 2) I'm in. 3) Move to Canada. Or at least set up a mirror operation on this side of the border to take advantage of the differences in US and life+50