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  2. Book scanning - Wikipedia

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    Book scanning or book digitization (also: magazine scanning or magazine digitization) is the process of converting physical books and magazines into digital media such as images, electronic text, or electronic books (e-books) by using an image scanner. [1] Large scale book scanning projects have made many books available online. [2] Digital ...

  3. Category:Digital libraries - Wikipedia

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    Shqip; SlovenĨina ... A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats. ... Book scanning; D.

  4. Internet Archive - Wikipedia

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    As of July 2013, the Internet Archive was operating 33 scanning centers in five countries, digitizing about 1,000 books a day for a total of more than 2 million books, in a total collection of 4.4 million books – including material digitized by others and fed into the Internet Archive; at that time, users were performing more than 15 million ...

  5. Digitization - Wikipedia

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    Internet Archive book scanner. Digitization [1] is the process of converting information into a digital (i.e. computer-readable) format. [2] The result is the representation of an object, image, sound, document, or signal (usually an analog signal) obtained by generating a series of numbers that describe a discrete set of points or samples. [3]

  6. Google Books - Wikipedia

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    Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]

  7. Million Book Project - Wikipedia

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    The Million Book Project was a 501(c)(3) charity organization with various scanning centers throughout the world. By December 2007, more than 1.5 million books had been scanned, in 20 languages: 970,000 in Chinese; 360,000 in English; 50,000 in Telugu ; and 40,000 in Arabic. [ 2 ]

  8. Comparison of e-book formats - Wikipedia

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    IBM created this e-book format and used it extensively for OS/2 and other of its operating systems. The INF files were often digital versions of printed books that came with some bundles of OS/2 and other products. There were many other newsletters and monthly publications (e.g.: EDM/2) available in the INF format too.

  9. Image scanner - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Murray and Richard Morse invented and patented the first analog color scanner at Eastman Kodak in 1937. Intended for color separation at printing presses, their machine was an analog drum scanner that imaged a color transparency mounted in the drum, with a light source placed underneath the film, and three photocells with red, green, and blue color filters reading each spot on the ...