Comparing Digital Materials from Paris
A hands-on comparison of the digital materials from the manuscript collections of Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF, Paris), and a review of…
Category: Digitization
The future of document scanning: we are not there yet
Evernote’s new automatic document scanner is an interesting look at how we will be able to scan text materials with…
Comparing Digital Materials from Tehran
A hands-on comparison of the quality of digital materials offered by the manuscript collections from Tehran. Digitization projects have been taken…
Comparing Digital Materials from Istanbul
A hands-on comparison of the quality of digital materials offered by the manuscript collections from Istanbul. Digitization projects have been taken…
Talking about DO at MELA
On Thursday, November 20, I gave a talk about the Digital Orientalist at the conference of the Middle East Librarians…
Project Digitize It All: Timed Example
Here is a quick overview of the time involved getting a paper copy of a book into a workable, decent…
Project Digitize It All: Post-Production Editing (Video)
Click here to see in five minutes how I create fully searchable black and white PDFs from photos. Such files…
Project Digitize It All: Using a Digital Camera
For digitizing a couple of dozen books at home, fast, I decided to use a digital camera. In this post I detail exactly…
Project Digitize It All: The Aftermath
A while ago I announced the start of a digitization project for my personal collection. At this point, the project is…
Manuscripts: The Hunt for Topkapi
Getting images of manuscripts from Topkapi, Istanbul, is notoriously difficult. Here I describe how I succeeded in obtaining them. I…