OUCH! A 280 year-old book being handled by ungloved hands!

I'd think be inclined to not try to place the book flat on a scanner but rather set up a copy stand arrangement with a high-megapixel camera. That way the books can be opened to just past 90 degrees thereby reducing the risk of damaging the bindings and the pages can be held flat with a sheet of glass thereby eliminating the need to correct the curvature.

The main potential problem I see with this arangement is resolution. You'd have to run some tests to see if the resulting resolution will suffice.

Of course, the process will be a lot slower than if you used a scanner, but these are irreplacable books you are handling and saving a bit of time is not adequate justification if the books get harmed in the process.

JMVHO
Ken Lipworth.

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On Aug 2, 1:32 pm, wrote:

I will be in the process of imaging pages of different books for archival purposes, and I was wondering how useful Photoshop might be for improving image quality of the pages. I mainly want to know if it can enhance images of a page that have a great deal of curvature in the center.

Hi,
Can you post a link to an example typical of what you will be working with?

Thanks,
Ron

This is the best picture I can come up with.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/arendle/122135090/

If I was allowed to attach a file to this post, I could give you a better example. The kind of curvature I'm thinking of that I would want to eliminate would be more pronounced than this, but hopefully have more space in the inner margin.

dmehling

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