Friday, February 12, 2021

Digitizing Books at the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive has been digitizing books for many years and recently passed two million volumes. To do this work, the Internet Archive invented a scanner and the software which runs it. The Scribe scanner is used at their scanning centers around the world.  The Archive notes:

We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way--one page at a time.

They have posted a 40-second video of one of their Scribe scanners in action. The video is available on Facebook and Twitter. A big smile crossed my face watching it, given the beginnings of this blog was in digitization. Sadly, I could not get it to embed here.  

I've written about the Internet Archive in the past, including their digitization efforts. You can access past Internet Archive posts here.


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