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I thought the point in debinding was to use an autofeeder - to make the actual scanning less labor intensive. Wouldn't a camera based scanner be better? It sti

by snthd 3y ago

I thought the point in debinding was to use an autofeeder - to make the actual scanning less labor intensive. Wouldn't a camera based scanner be better? It still requires manual page turning, but will save on the prep work and destroying the magazines, even if just to sell on. The paper and ink quality will present they're own issues, but maybe those will be quicker to solve than the debinding and page feeding process. https://archive.org/details/tabletopscribesystem https://archive.org/details/tabletopscribesystem https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1358090982189719552?s=20 https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/13580909821897195... https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/meet-eliza-zhang-book-scanner-and-viral-video-star/ https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/meet-eliza-zhang-book-sc... https://www.diybookscanner.org/ https://www.diybookscanner.org/ The effort here to preserve history though is incredible.

schlauerfox 3y ago
In magazines there's a thing called full bleed, where the image goes to the edge of the paper, and the gutter between pages is glued together so cutting, shaving or flattening will still lose some image as the binding process isn't consistent, so to save as much image as possible, they're going to the trouble to be the archival standard, after all, he decided the deglue is best. Great article.
toyg 3y ago
With very thick books like those, debinding is necessary even just to get a good straight scan.
textfiles 3y ago
Well, there is no situation where this isn't in some way labor-intensive. But one of the reasons that I chose to use the feed scanner that I do is that I get 600 dots per inch on these scans of these massive tabloids.