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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Eddie73 on May 02, 2014, 04:53:18 PM

Title: Non-comic book scanning projects
Post by: Eddie73 on May 02, 2014, 04:53:18 PM

I'd be very interested to know if others are doing for other publications what the scanners/editors here are doing for comic books.

For example, is anyone scanning all the great pulp magazines from the early 20th century?

Title: Re: Non-comic book scanning projects
Post by: JonTheScanner on May 02, 2014, 05:12:46 PM

A lot of pulps have been scanned & OCRed.  I thought I had a link, but I can't seem to find it.

Title: Re: Non-comic book scanning projects
Post by: Yoc on May 03, 2014, 12:21:54 AM

Perhaps it was this one Jon?

http://www.pulpmags.org/default.htm

Title: Re: Non-comic book scanning projects
Post by: Mark Warner on May 03, 2014, 01:53:46 AM

Or have a look here! http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1555 (http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1555) We have a largish pulp section now and you can see that there are some very active scanners

Title: Re: Non-comic book scanning projects
Post by: narfstar on May 05, 2014, 07:36:34 PM

I have some big little books to scan but they are a pain

Title: Re: Non-comic book scanning projects
Post by: Eddie73 on May 09, 2014, 05:16:27 PM

What about newspaper strips?

Aside from scanning collections of strips in actual books, and assembling the recent strips that are digitized by their syndicates, are people going to the source material (old newspapers, microfiche) to scan?

Title: Re: Non-comic book scanning projects
Post by: Yoc on May 09, 2014, 10:42:34 PM

Yes Eddie, there are some.
One is a huge collection some are trying to digitize right now.
You can read about them here - http://www.ilovecomixarchive.com/

Title: Re: Non-comic book scanning projects
Post by: KaineZ on May 10, 2014, 05:22:51 PM

I've got the pulp scans spreadsheet from 3-17-2014.  Don't know if that's the latest, but it was when I got it  :P

It's got links to most scans in the spreadsheet.