Within Limits: mass-digitization from scratch

Within Limits: mass-digitization from scratch

The provincial library of West-Vlaanderen (Belgium) is digitizing a large part of its iconographic collection. Due to various (technical and financial) reasons no specialist software was used. FastScan is a set of VBS-scripts that was developed by the author using off-the-shelf software that was eit...

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Main Author: Pieter De Praetere
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Code4Lib 2014-07-01
Series:Code4Lib Journal
Online Access:http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9780
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spelling doaj-f97c14b9028543cc821928bffa0aac6b2020-11-25T03:40:05ZengCode4LibCode4Lib Journal1940-57582014-07-01259780Within Limits: mass-digitization from scratchPieter De PraetereThe provincial library of West-Vlaanderen (Belgium) is digitizing a large part of its iconographic collection. Due to various (technical and financial) reasons no specialist software was used. FastScan is a set of VBS-scripts that was developed by the author using off-the-shelf software that was either included in MS Windows (XP & 7) or already installed (imageMagick, Irfanview, littlecms, exiv2). This scripting package has increased the digitization efforts immensely. The article will show what software was used, the problems that occurred and how they were scripted together.http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9780
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description The provincial library of West-Vlaanderen (Belgium) is digitizing a large part of its iconographic collection. Due to various (technical and financial) reasons no specialist software was used. FastScan is a set of VBS-scripts that was developed by the author using off-the-shelf software that was either included in MS Windows (XP & 7) or already installed (imageMagick, Irfanview, littlecms, exiv2). This scripting package has increased the digitization efforts immensely. The article will show what software was used, the problems that occurred and how they were scripted together.
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