As for scanning: $30mm doesn't seem like a ton of money to scan 800 scrolls with untold history and other works, compared to other uses of that amount of money

As for scanning: $30mm doesn't seem like a ton of money to scan 800 scrolls with untold history and other works, compared to other uses of that amount of money I could name now. Maybe someone will donate that cost and perhaps all the scrolls can be transported at one time or in a few bigger groups to be closer to the particle accelerator. Another million bucks and I bet you could build a climate-controlled container to take them all at once, or something. If I had $30mm I would definitely donate to this cause, it seems like one of the best uses of that kind of money I can think of. That would bypass the need to research and develop a bench top scanner or another solution. You could even crowdfund this! As for segmentation: get some sort of collective solution going, like the Seti@Home did, but for people who are bored as hell, instead of them scrolling Reddit or Twitter all day. Maybe do it like a CAPTCHA so you get it done for free? I'd segment for a few hours a month if I had the ability to do so. This is a cool project that has taken a community to build to this point, why not try and open and expand the collective of humans working to understand the scrolls? Get millions of people involved and you don't need to rely on technological crutches and development, though that is not the worst way to go either.