Difference between revisions of "A public library of our own: Building feminist digital libraries"

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''How can I make materials rare or at risk available to others? How can I digitize books, fanzines, posters? How can I organise the printed materials my organisation and/or community are producing? Where can I find e-books? If you have one or several of those questions in mind, this how-to is for you!''
 
''How can I make materials rare or at risk available to others? How can I digitize books, fanzines, posters? How can I organise the printed materials my organisation and/or community are producing? Where can I find e-books? If you have one or several of those questions in mind, this how-to is for you!''
  
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[[File:Cover.jpg|thumbnail|A scanned book cover|center]]
 
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[[File:ScannedNoOCR.png|thumbnail|Typical image of a scanned book without OCR: If you can not copy the text, it means no OCR|center]]
  
 
Then in order to transform images into proper texts you can use software for achieving an Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This is  a method of digitizing printed texts so they can be edited, searched, stored, displayed on-line. One of the most common software to achieve OCR is [http://www.abbyy.com/finereader/ Abbyy Finereader] which is proprietary and available for Windows and Mac OS. There is also a free software version called Tesarac and you can use  it for instance from [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gscan2pdf/files/gscan2pdf/ Gscan2pdf].   
 
Then in order to transform images into proper texts you can use software for achieving an Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This is  a method of digitizing printed texts so they can be edited, searched, stored, displayed on-line. One of the most common software to achieve OCR is [http://www.abbyy.com/finereader/ Abbyy Finereader] which is proprietary and available for Windows and Mac OS. There is also a free software version called Tesarac and you can use  it for instance from [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gscan2pdf/files/gscan2pdf/ Gscan2pdf].   
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Wrapping up, when you notice that someone asks for a book you can use ebooks repositories to find it, use Calibre to catalog that book, and use [let’s share books] to share it online. If you notice that some particular book on those repositories needs an extra care to split the double pages, or is only composed by scanned images, then you can make an OCR of it and upload it back on those repositories and/or make it available through your catalog of books.
 
Wrapping up, when you notice that someone asks for a book you can use ebooks repositories to find it, use Calibre to catalog that book, and use [let’s share books] to share it online. If you notice that some particular book on those repositories needs an extra care to split the double pages, or is only composed by scanned images, then you can make an OCR of it and upload it back on those repositories and/or make it available through your catalog of books.
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