[ILL-L] Microfilm to PDF w/OCR

[Kathleen Spring]

Our microfilm machine is not currently connected to a computer, although I have been told that it does have that capability. My faculty member appears to have found a local company (in Portland) which will do this for him. I did receive other suggestions for two other for-fee companies that digitize; if anyone is interested in that information, you can email me off-list and I'll share. In this case, it's a personal copy of microfilm which would only be used for his own research purposes, so (in my opinion) copyright does not seem to be an issue here.

Thanks to those who offered suggestions,
K.

Kathleen Spring
Evening Supervisor
Nicholson Library
Linfield College
503-883-2711
Sunday-Thursday 2-11 PM



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Bruno [mailto:tom.bruno at gmail.com]
Sent: Tue 3/10/2009 6:51 AM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: Re: [ILL-L] Microfilm to PDF w/OCR
 
I'm also interested to hear if anyone's explored the copyright implications
of digitizing their microfilm resources for ILL purposes.  Thanks!
Best,
Tom Bruno
Head of Interlibrary Loan
Widener Library
Harvard University

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM, <augusjo at earlham.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>    I am also curious about this. Kathleen, is your microfilm machine
> connected to only one computer, or no computer at all?
>
> ~Joe
> --
> Joe Augustin
> Interlibrary Loan & E-Serials
> Earlham College (IEC)
> (765) 983-1307
> ill at earlham.edu
>
> > Greetings -
> >
> >
> >
> > I realize this is a bit of an odd question, but since many of us deal
> > with microfilm I thought I'd give it a whirl on the list. A faculty
> > member here is interested in having some of his student workers take
> > several microfilm reels (of a 1930s-era newspaper) and have them
> > converted to searchable PDFs. Our microfilm machine is not networked, so
> > our only option right now is to print off individual pages, scan those
> > on a flatbed scanner, and run them through OCR in Acrobat Professional.
> > This method seems cumbersome at best, particularly given the potential
> > quality control issues that may arise. Is anyone aware of a for-fee
> > service that would digitize a small number of reels (i.e. 2 or 3)? I
> > doubt that it would be within his price range, but I'm trying to provide
> > information for the student who is coordinating the project.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > K.
> >
> > ______________________________
> >
> > Kathleen Spring
> >
> > Evening Supervisor
> >
> > Nicholson Library
> >
> > Linfield College
> >
> > 503-883-2711
> >
> > Sunday-Thursday 2-11 PM
> >
> >
> >
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