Adiyen need a technical guidance. [7 Attachments]

July 7, 2009

Dear Swamin, Photo images is a good alternate but require editing for contrast and very time consuming.It just occurred to me that you may again try scanning as output is faster. To protect pages from crumbling due to heat, you may place a OHP transparent sheet and over this place the sheet to be scanned.In this case, i imagine that heat is taken away by the OHP sheet. Regards, Veeraraghavan.( non technical advice ) /6/09, T.Raguveeradayal <rajamragu wrote:

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Dear all,adiyen dasasya vignaapanam. Adiyen need an advice from technically talented members of this group. Delhi Anbil Srinivasan swami has sent 100 plus very old books to me. One book has been printed in 1898 and it is a vyakyanam on selected works from Azhwar Aruli cheyal and it contains English commentaries also. While the Tamil commentary has many Grantha lipi text, kannadam is widely used within the English commentary. This Tamil only knowing pamaran is unable to comment anything on this book but hope that since it dates back to 1898 it may throw some fresh light. And hence my desire to place it on the web.

But the pages of the book are purpled and so brittle that one needs to turn the page with very great care (like that of a surgeon doing a very complicated operation ) And as such the pages can not be scanned. On an earlier occasion I lost few pages of another book as these purpled brittle pages do not withstand the heat of scanning machine. What can I do? I have attached a few images from the book taken with my camera.

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