Hello to all
Here is an issue regarding large formats digitisation:
My organization is developping a project that compehends the recovery of an
agency records discontinued in 1976 .
A significant part of the records are blueprints and architectural
projects, ie, very large formats.
We are making description and digitising all these records. We are working
with a Minolta PS7000 which copes formats upto A2 only. In order to capture
larger formats with need to perform several scans of the same document in order
to get all the information in it.
The average is 6 images per document.
After this step it was our first intention to process the images making the
connections through photoshop.
During the benchmarking stage however, this revealed as a very time
consuming job with modest outcomes only. (medium accuracy on putting the images
together)
We are looking for a better solution and one possibility is to take big
sized photoghaphs (9 x 12 cm) which allows excelent resolution
and then digitise the resulting negatives. In most cases one photograph
allows for the capture of a full document.
DOes anyone has some similar experience and are there other solutions you
will be willing to share?
We can't purchase drum scanner as it's very expensive and hardly
justifiable as after this project finishes we won´t be dealing anymore with this
kind of documents.
To you think digital camera could be an option?
Regards to all and have a happy Xmas and HNY
Francisco
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