Hesburgh Libraries

Learn how to create user-friendly and professional-looking scans using Hesburgh Library’s resources, whether for teaching, research, or personal use.

This workshop will cover the following:

1. Getting the best out of the Hesburgh Library scanners (overhead scanner for bound books, automated document feeder for separate pages, and the KIC software)
2. Other image sources
3. Streamlined cropping with BRISS
4. Amending geometrical distortions, cleaning up unwanted marks and uneven colorations, and performing OCR (optical character recognition) with ABBYY FineReader

There are no prerequisites, but participants are encouraged to bring a laptop and have a PDF file of a scanned document (or any PDF) to work on.

Presented by: Anton Lahaie, 5+1 Postdoctoral Fellow, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship