Scans
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The terms scan, scans, scanner, and scanning are used in many places in multiple ways at DPC.
"Scan" and "scans" (n.) usually refer to the image files created by Content Providers (occasionally referred to as "scanners" [n.], in the sense of people who scan [v.]), who use hardware known as "scanners" (n.) to "scan" (v.) the individual pages of a book or other textual material. This process is referred to as "scanning" (v. or gerund). In other words, "scans" are the results of running a "scanner" or "scanning." (Sometimes Content Providers harvest scans from other online sources instead of scanning them themselves.)
OCR software is used to convert the textual content of the scanned images (scans) into editable text, and as a project begins its journey through DP's rounds, the proofers working in P1 compare each page's OCR text to its original scan. Thus, "the scans" are the foundation of the e-texts produced by DP.
The DPC workflow is focused, at its core, on individual scanned images of the pages of books (and other published works). Associated with every page of a DPC project is a high-resolution digital image file that represents a portion of a page of the original work.
- Scanning Guidelines for Content Providers
- Read about Scanner hardware
- Detailed information for handling images and illustrations
