Imagine how much work it would take to scan nearly 2 million Civil War-era documents related to newly-freed slaves. Now imagine the work involved to then go through those documents and painstakingly index the names and other information. This is exactly what the Freedmen’s Bureau Project did to help African Americans reconnect with their ancestors. […]
Continue readingSo you’re hanging out in Normandy and decide you want to conquer England. You eventually find out that conquering a country and running it are two different things, and this is what William, Duke of Normandy faced after the Norman conquest in 1066. You might be thinking “what the heck does this have to do […]
Continue readingEven though people call me “Mr. Paperless”, I have long maintained that there can be some very good reasons to use paper, and this amazing project is a perfect example. As you may or may not know, the majority of Nairobi’s population live in slums, and lack of sanitation (and the diseases that come along […]
Continue readingThe Gutenberg Bible is one of those items that I suspect everyone has heard of, but just in case, here is what Wikipedia has to say on the subject: The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42) was the first major book printed with movable type in the […]
Continue readingI’ve written before about the way that tablets are changing the way that pilots access information in-flight, but Federico over at MacStories has taken it to the next level. He has an interview with Erik Hess, a US Navy fighter pilot: iPad in Real Life: Erik Hess, F–5N Tiger II Pilot. It’s a fascinating read […]
Continue readingFrom time to time, I like to feature some interesting scanning projects, and this one certainly qualifies. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has put more than 2,000 of Albert Einstein’s documents online for anyone to view. There are manuscripts (including one of only three manuscripts containing e=mc2), letters from his personal life, his Nobel Prize, […]
Continue readingHow a scanning expert preserves his World War II veteran grandfather’s letters.
Continue readingFrom time to time, I like to feature interesting scanning projects here on DocumentSnap, and it is pretty difficult to find one more interesting than this. I’m going to guess that you have heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but if not, here is what Wikipedia has to say: The Dead Sea Scrolls are a […]
Continue readingIn the Spring, the CEO of GoDaddy upset a lot of people when he went on an elephant hunting trip. This reaction would have seemed pretty strange to the public back in 1871, when Queen Victoria’s second son Prince Alfred went on a 5 week long trip through Ceylon (aka Sri Lanka). This trip was […]
Continue readingLongtime readers will know that I am a sucker for stories of interesting scanning projects. This case study from the ABBYY Newsletter is no exception. It seems that some monks at the St. Gregory Palamas Monastery had a problem: “We have a number of printed documents in polytonic Greek that we needed to convert into […]
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