Digitization
Author:
Alexander Popov
Outline
- Why digitalization?
- What format for digitalization?
Steps in digitalization
- 3.1 Scanning
- 3.2 Editing
- 3.3 Enhancing
- 3.4 Encoding
- 3.5 Finalization
- Creation of collections of DJVu books
List of the software mentioned in the presentation
- WinDjView - viewer of DjVu files
- Adobe Finereader - automation of scanning, enhancing scans, OCR
- ScanKromsator - batch processing of scans
- FotoCanvas - editor of graphics inside ACDSee kit
- Adobe Photoshop - editor of raster graphics
- DjVu Solo - DjVu encoder (free but obsolete)
- Express Enterprise with DjVu - DjVu encoder
- Document Express Editor - editor of DjVu files
- DjvuOCR 2.0 pre - adding OCR to DjVu files
Recommended sites
- http://www.lizardtech.com/ - official site of DjVu format, free plug-in for reading DjVu in IE
- http://djvu.sourceforge.net/ - open source software including free DjVu viewer
- http://any2djvu.djvuzone.org/ - creating DjVu from almost any format online
- http://www.djvuzone.org/ - non-commercial resource about DjVu
- http://scan-elib.narod.ru/djvu/index.htm - everything for creating electronic books (soft, article, instructions), in Russian