AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 7 months agoAt the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.files.catbox.moevideomessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up1820arrow-down18
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minus-squaredroans@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·7 months agoIirc they did experience with automation before and did get it to copy well… But like you said, it would damage books pretty frequently. That’s not what you’d want for old and fragile materials which are rather irreplaceable.
Iirc they did experience with automation before and did get it to copy well…
But like you said, it would damage books pretty frequently. That’s not what you’d want for old and fragile materials which are rather irreplaceable.