Friday

Today I got The Beast ready to scan my next project, a tiny Inter-Library Loan book. I replaced the arms and tried to clean the glass however, it was very difficult to get it completely streak-free. I've tried multiple methods on it but nothing seems to work perfectly. When I focus the cameras on Monday, hopefully I'll be able to tell if the cleanliness of the glass will interfere with the scans or not. There are also several paper dust particles from the Kappa Sigma scrapbook that will take a while to remove entirely. I've gotten the majority of the debris but the dust has stuck to the scanning bed and all the little crevices around the metal and glass plate cover.

Kappa Sigma Scrapbook Scanning Finished

Today I completed editing all the scans for the Kappa Sigma scrapbook. I was able to select an option to keep the original file names in BookEditor so I re-processed the batch.

Now both the jpegs and tifs have the correct file names with the page number and an "A," "B," "C," etc. if there are multiple scans due to the foldouts. If there was only one scan of the page then the original "L" or "R" has remained.

All the completed images are now in drobo > "Kappa Sigma Scrapbook" and there are individual folders for both the tif and jpeg files.

Monday

Today I continued to edit the Kappa Sigma scrapbook images and I think I can complete them on Wednesday. I also re-scanned the first Paulus foldout again and was able to capture the entire foldout in one image. I took two images and wasn't sure which one looked better so I put them in drobo>Temp named Foldout_1A and Foldout_1B. I also included .tif and .jpg formats of the images in the Temp folder.

Scrapbook File Format Question

Since I still have some questions about the Paulus scrapbook foldouts, today I focused on editing the Kappa Sigma scrapbook scans. I'm well over 3/4 of the way done with editing them in Photoshop however I realized I've been editing the JPEGs that were saved as default by BookDrive.

After some research online, I found out that it might have been better to export the files as TIFFs, edit those, and then convert the TIFFs to JPEGs in order to have high-quality of both file types. I know this project is time-sensitive so is this a problem? Do the final files need to be in TIFF and JPEG format or will the JPEGs suffice? If I should start over and edit all the TIFF files instead, I can maybe work some extra hours next week since I know they'd like this completed by the end of the month.

Also, I made the same mistake by editing the default JPEGs of the Paulus foldout scans. However, from the instructions, I understood that there were only three foldouts to be scanned so these will be much easier to export as TIFFs, re-edit, and then convert to JPEG. Are the Paulus foldout scans time-sensitive as well?

Paulus Scrapbook Foldouts

Today I concentrated on scanning the Paulus Scrapbook newspaper foldouts. I had some trouble fitting the scrapbook under the glass and capturing a full picture so I'll need to finish this project on Friday.

I put the JPEG images that I captured and edited today in drobo > Temp in a folder called "Paulus Foldouts." However, I may need to rescan most of them on top of the glass and I still need to convert them to TIFFs.

1940 Wallulah Update

I'm not working on the Wallulahs at the moment but 1940 is nearly complete. I need to rescan and/or edit some images where faces were cut off since the portraits are close to the binding.

Kappa Sigma Scrapbook Status

On Friday I finished scanning all the pages of the Kappa Sigma scrapbook. It was difficult to capture the entire cover (front and back) and there was some glare from the leather-like material so those scans will need probably need to be approved.

Today I continued to deskew and crop the images. As a rough estimate, I think I've edited around one-third of all the images so the project should be completed soon.