Week 5: Digitizing Images and Text

• Scan samples
  • Color
  • Grayscale
  • Black/White
  • scan-size
• Scan quality sample
  • 72 color
  • 300 color
  • 600 color

Images and Imaging Tools

• Digitizing the Iliad [http://neveryetmelted.com/index.php/3-d-scanning-the-iliad/]
• [http://chs75.chs.harvard.edu/manuscripts/image-viewer?folio=24r&ms=msA&image=]
• Butcher Glass Plate Negative Collection [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/builddig.html]
• Image manipulation
• Harvard Open Library Collections Children's Aid Society [http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/4593961?n=1&imagesize=1200&jp2Res=.25&printThumbnails=no]
• British Library "Turning the Page" [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html]
• Zoomify - Metropolitan Museum of Art, Romare Bearden exhibit [http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/the_block/look_02.html]
• Truth in Images?
  • [http://sangerpapers.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/setting-the-record-straight/]
  • [http://sangerpapers.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/the-voldemort-sanger-connection/]

Texts

• HTML transcription [http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/secure/newsletter/articles/speech_use_of_the_pessary.html]
• XML transcription [http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=229952.xml]
• PDF transcription [http://books.google.com/books?id=pUZLM6IVBO4C&pg=PA323&dq=%22pessary%22+sanger&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Cc9OT4jtDKW80AGj_53hAg&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22pessary%22%20sanger&f=false]
• Image and transcription sample
  • Adams Family Papers [http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/cfm/doc.cfm?id=L17961127aa]
  • Martha Ballard Diary [http://dohistory.org/diary/1785/01/17850101_img.html]
  • Harvard Open Collections [http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/4407870?n=32&imagesize=2400&jp2Res=0.5&printThumbnails=no]
• Optical Character Scanning (OCR) Image of a typed letter [http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/HNM/OCR-scanned-image.jpg]
  • [http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/HNM/ocr2.jpg]
  • FreeOCR.net scanning of main paragraph [http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/HNM/FreeOCR-screenshot.JPG]