Re: [nukkad] help for digitalisation

["Ravi Menon" <>]

IMPORTANT
If you are planning to sell these books at anytime any tampering with teh
binding will diminish its value dramatically!
Ravi


On 2/20/08, Ravi Menon  wrote:
>
> Scan, TV much better than photography. With a camera whatever resolution
> you will never get a flatbed image of it.
> Once scanned you may even be able to use OCR (Optical character
> recognition) soft ware which would make it truly digital.
> As to binding, most museums / libraries / booksellers / publishers have
> people (or contacts/contractors) trained in the art of binding older
> manuscripts without damaging the books.
> Ravi
>
>
>  On 2/20/08, Tirumurti Vasudevan  wrote:
> >
> > the rules are that publications have a copyright for 50 years after the
> > death of the author
> > i need to go through the books yet to find what books are ok
> > tv
> >
> > On Feb 20, 2008 1:05 PM, Rohit Mansukhlal  wrote:
> >
> > > On 2/20/08, Tirumurti Vasudevan  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > need some advice on digitalisation of some old books.
> > > > recently i got hold of some 200-300 old books some being out of
> > print
> > > and
> > > > some in bad condition.
> > > > the only way they can be preserved is to make digital copies.
> > >
> > >
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> > > Is ccpying this way without the author's / publisher's permission
> > alright
> > > from the legal
> > > point of view ? Just a thought.
> > > I too have many volumes now getting crispy and yellow of age .......
> > once
> > > TV
> > > finalizes
> > > how to go about the preservation I too may follow him !!
> > >
> > > Rohit Zaveri
> > >
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