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At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand. (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 9 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] prenatal_confusion@lemmy.one 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That would be interesting to see!

This is probably the method that gives you the best quality (deskewing, lighting) without cutting the back of the book and feeding it into a scanner. (AFAIK)

I saw a book scanner similar to this one that used a vacuum to turn pages but otherwise same principle.