[Digitalarchivists] Digitalarchivists Digest, Vol 26, Issue 3

[Andrew Defries]

Hiroshi,

Great to meet you. If you will be at noisebridge on Wed around 7 pm, feel
free to come by and chat.

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>    1. Newcomer to Noisebridge Wants to Say "Thank You" (Hiroshi Usui)
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> Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 14:43:49 -0700
> From: Hiroshi Usui <hiroshiusui1 at gmail.com>
> To: digitalarchivists at lists.noisebridge.net
> Subject: [Digitalarchivists] Newcomer to Noisebridge Wants to Say
>         "Thank You"
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> Noisebridge newcomer here:
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> I want to thank the Digital Archivists for building the first book scanner
> at Noisebridge, based on Daniel Reetz's design. A few days ago, I visited
> Noisebridge for the first time to scan some books from the library. I very
> slightly edited the python script to make "continous_scan.py", which lets
> me scan without overwriting previous scans.
>
> While non-destructive book scanning can't match the quality of destructive
> book scans through a document feeder, the scanned text is absolutely still
> usable for educational purposes -- especially for college students.
>
> My initial issues were skewed pages and not being able to zoom the Canon
> EOS DSLRs onto the page as much as I would have liked it to. However, with
> the appropriate Photoshop and Finereader usage, I was able to post-process
> the scans with very little manual repetition for each page.
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> RAW SCAN: http://i.imgur.com/QwbfU6I.jpg
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> PROCESSED SCAN: http://i.imgur.com/qwwU8xd.jpg
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> If you're curious to see the rest of the book, here is a Google Drive
> download link:
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> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_TF0K5d10bVSmo0dlVGZ00yTzg/view?usp=sharing
> (622 MB)
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> When I have time, I try to release these books to public trackers. If the
> Digital Archivists don't mind, I would like to continue scanning borrowed
> books from my campus library. I would also like to get connected with the
> Digital Archivists so I can learn more about the Noisebridge community.
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> Thanks for keeping the book scanner operational, and good luck on the
> second book scanner.
>
> - Hiroshi/uberkelium
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