faims / document-scanner

Academic archival research in ancient history and egyptology

About this module:

This module was created for archival research in Egyptology, based at Macquarie University, Australia. The module has been designed to record archival documents in degraded conditions. The archives were often without stable internet connection, without access to scanner / photocopier with the exception of mobile phone for taking pictures. The module upon export from the server compiles taken photos into PDF format and automatically attaches available metadata, and provides OCR text version of the scanned document.

Authorship:

This module was co-developed by Dr. Alex Woods at Macquarie University, Department of Ancient History and Brian Ballsun-Stanton at the FAIMS Project, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University.

Funding:

Development of this module was funded by the Research Attraction and Acceleration Program (RAAP) NSW Department of Industry 16805/00 aimed to support innovation and investment in the New South Wales in 2016 and 2017.

Date of release:

June 2017

FAIMS Mobile version:

FAIMS v2.5 (Android 6+)

Licence:

This module is licensed under an international Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0).

Access:

The module can be downloaded from this GitHub repository.

This module contains the following FAIMS features:

• structured recording of archival metadata
• automatically attaches recent photos taken on the device to the archival record (metadata)
• upon export produces PDF with metadata, OCR scan of the document, OCR text file of the document

This module can be used with no or minor modification for:

• research in archives or libraries with restrictive use of scanners and photocopiers
• tagging of printed documents and their digitisation

Contact info:

If you have any questions about the module, please contact the FAIMS team at [email protected] and we will get back to you within one business day.

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