High-volume Sheet-feeding Scanner

Imaging Services high-volume document scanning service

Is your collection a good match for high-speed sheet feeding?

Source material characteristics

Loose sheets

• No fasteners
• No additional paper/items affixed to any sheets.
• No extremely brittle pages with broken edges.
• No deckled (rough and irregular) edges, only clean regular edges.
• Barcodes may need to be removed or lined-out with a marker before scanning
• Variable page sizes and thickness can be accommodated within a single scanning batch.
• Cockled, wrinkled sheets can be accommodated in most cases.

Sheet size

• Max: 11" x 17"
• Min: 2.5" x 3.5"

Paper weight range

Approximately, 16 lb (think, tracing paper) to approximately 53 lb (think, index card)

Note that thin papers need to be evaluated carefully, as the scanner can only scan pages that have some directional stiffness.

Additional constraints

• Black/very dark pages cannot be scanned. These are invisible to the scanner's sensors.
• Documents/objects of less than 50 sheets cannot be scanned efficiently with this scanner. Collections of documents with few sheets each will be matched with another service.
• Document batches may be scanned in simplex (front of sheet only) or duplex (both sheet sides) mode. Blank page-sides will be included.

Warning

• When considering disbinding bound published materials for this service, be aware that text, charts, or images spanning across two-page openings will likely result in lost content. This loss originates in the disbinding process, not the scanning.

Outputs

• Default output: 8 bit per channel, 3 channel (RGB) color images
  • JPEG2000 format, lossless compression
  • 300 ppi
• 1 bit, bitonal images.
  • TIFF (G4 compressed)
• OCR
  • UTF-8 text, one file per corresponding page image.
  • UTF-8 text, ALTO format, one file per corresponding page-image

Default pricing

Note: Project-specific pricing depends on document condition, number of pages per document, and level of advance preparation.

• Image capture, using sheet-fed scanner, bitonal or color (default project price: $0.15 per image)
• Auto-generated Structural Metadata (default project price: $0.00 per object)
• Custom structural metadata assembly, simple (default project price: $3.00 per object)
• OCR, uncorrected (default project price: $0.03 per page)

Examples

• Bulletin Officiel du Congo Belge. 17ᵉ Année, nos. 1-12. Bruxelles, 1924. Harvard Law School Library.

• Bulletin Administratif du Laos. 21ᵉ Année, N°1-12. Vientiane, 1922. Harvard Law School Library

• Bulletin Administratif du Cambodge. 27ᵉ Année, No. 9. Phnom-Penh: Impr. du Protectorat, 1928. Harvard Law School Library.

• Bulletin Administratif de la Cochinchine. 27ᵉ Année, Nos. 44-46, 48-49. Saigon, 1928. Harvard Law School Library.

• Bulletin Administratif de l'Annam. Année 1929. Nos. 2, 4, 5, 7, n.p., 1929. Harvard Law School Library.

• Journal Officiel de la Haute-Volta, 10ᵉ Année, nos. 214-215, 218-220. Ouagadougou, 1928. Harvard Law School Library.

• Christian register. Boston [Mass.]: David Reed, 1843-1938. Vol. 84 no. 1

• Ladd, Helen F. Changing economic and fiscal conditions of citites [i.e. cities] final report. Cambridge, Mass: State, Local and Intergovernmental Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, [1986]

• United States, District Court (Massachusetts), United States, National Archives and Records Administration. Tallulah Morgan et al. vs James W. Hennigan et al. Case File, 1972 - 1995. Box 4, Folder 1 (document # 273-286), 7/16/1974-7/23/1974, NARA ID#99293814, National Archives at Boston. Digitized in partnership with Harvard Library.

• Courses of instruction : Harvard College, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Tools

• IS Project Profile Disbind form.pdf