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Tübingen, 1st February, 2005 – The Zeutschel Ltd., manufacturer of high performance scan systems, supplies 100 scanners for the American Project of the „Universal Library“ ( www.ulib.org ) to India. A digital library accessible for the public shall stand at the end of a big calculated Internet project – worldwide accessible by the Internet and free of charge for everyone. All cultural possessions available in paper form will be scanned, digitized and saved for that. The search for headwords shall be possible as well as the search for individual words directly in the text (full text search).
The first step of the ambitious project includes the digitizing of one million of books– what is less than one per cent of the books ever published in all languages. For reaching this target additionally 100 high performance scanners OMNISCAN 5000TT from Zeutschel are used in different libraries in India. Decisive were the very good scanning results even with difficult originals – among others made possible by the integrated book curve correction – and the easy and careful handling of the overhead book scanners.
Background:
The American Project „The Universal Library“ (www.ulib.org) has the target to digitize all worldwide cultural possessions available in paper form and to make them worldwide accessible for the public in one online library. As a proof of the feasibility the digitizing of one million of books until 2005 is planned in a first step in India and PR China, what corresponds approximately with 300 to 500 millions of pages. Based on the calculations, that 1000 workers with 100 scanners in three shift operations are able to scan approximately 6.000 to 10.000 pages a day, the pure scanning process could be finished within two years –the Carnegie Mellon University, which supports the project, expects a project time frame of less than four years for the first million of books including different imponderabilities.
The Zeutschel GmbH with its headquarters in Hirschau near Tübingen is a renowned special provider in the field of cultural possession protection, and it provides devices and systems for the documentation and archive management since more than 40 years. With its more than 50 employees Zeutschel develops, produces and and sales microfilm cameras, film readers, modern digital scanners for books and large formats and hybrid systems. The devices of Zeutschel are used by libraries, archives, universities and land registries worldwide.
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