Along the same line of sharing from AL, can you share with us what
equipment
you use to scan books, manuals, and papers in order to archive them on
bitsavers?
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Primary scanner is a Ricoh IS520.
B&W up to 400dpi, double sided, 30ppm, handles 11x17 sheets
Built like tanks. I think we have a dozen of them now between
Eric and I. Just found two on eBay for under $300 ea incl
shipping.
SW is windows-based and quirky, but after running a million
or so pages through it you learn to get around the bugs.
I made the decision a long time ago that the data on the pages
was more important than the bindings, so bound docs and books
are disassembled to scan.
If I can find bound docs in poor condition (water damage, etc.)
I'll use those first.
I have a Mustek 11x17 flatbed SCSI scanner for large format or
color scanning.
I also have a Mekel M560 microfiche/aperture card scanner that
I'm just getting up to speed on, and a couple of large format (36")
scanners that I need to get going, and a bunch of 3M microfilm
scanners in storage.