Dear sri Krishna This is not a problem, I have scanned in 100 year old texts. Because the quality is not that great, I first make a photocopy using some of the advanced copiers and then scan that. This gives a very good quality (compared to the original). Once i scan them, I save them to PDF using Acrobat. The resulting files are very compact and easy to view across platforms. Once the setup is done, it took me about less than 1mnt per page (with a feeder its much easier). The problem with some ofthe old tamil books on Sri Viashnavam, is they are mixed with grantham, sanskrit and telugu. So an OCR is close to impossible for these books. If I were you, I would recommend using PDF for storing the scanned texts. this preserves the original font face and all the characteristics of the original print. please see: http://www.srivaishnava.org/rare The text of interest is the GPP 6000. Iam in the process of scanning a 1909 publication of Sri Vaccanabhushanam along with commentaries by Sri Manavala mamuni and Sri Tirunarayanpuratt ay, one of Sri manavala mamuni's teachers. thanks adiyEn venkatesh elayavalli http://www.srivaishnava.org --- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "krishna kashyap" <kkalale1@xxxx> wrote: > How can anyone scan in old texts. That way we can store the info. > If you can find out what tools are needed and how one can do that it > will be great > > krishna >
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