[OPLINTECH] Digitizing Local books

[F. Jay Barkey]

We have 15-20 booklets that contain local history and interest 
articles.  We had several sets of them but some have disappeared over 
the years from our reference section. 

While we still have a complete set, we are thinking about scanning those 
to create electronic versions.  Our copier scans very cleanly to PDF and 
then eventually we would convert them by OCR to searchable documents, 
which will require some editing.

Has anyone tried such a project?  If so, should we scan the entire book 
(~50 pages) as one item, scan by article or by page?

Any suggestions, comments, problems or things we should consider would 
be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jay

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F. Jay Barkey
Asst. Director / Information Technology Librarian
Adams County Public Library
157 High Street
Peebles, OH 45660
(937) 587-2085
(937) 509-0030 (cell)
(937) 587-5043 (fax)
mailto:barkeyja at oplin.org
http://adamsco.lib.oh.us