Scanning Karmapa Dege Volumes

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Scanning Karmapa Dege Kangyur and Tengyur

Contributor(s): Than Grove, Ben Deitle, Adam Newman

Karmapa Kangyur Reprint Scanning Instructions. 2008-07-29

Where: Scholar’s Lab
Machine: IBM at first station ALD419-502
Scanner: Fujitsu fi-5220c
Note: Get there early, as close to 8am as possible; this scanner is very popular
Takes about 1 hour to scan 100 pages (that is, 200 total sides) using the automatic document feeder.

Scanning

Log on

Software: Adobe Photoshop
Go to: File>Import>Fujitsu fi-5220c
Twain Driver: Long page (duplex) (note: this must be changed manually when Photoshop is first opened; thereafter it remains the chosen option)
Long Page Paper Size Setting: 4.750+21.500 inches (note: this must be changed manually when Photoshop is first opened; thereafter it remains the chosen option)
Resolution: 600px/in; Length:15235px; Width=2720px
Image Mode: Black and White (note: this should already be the default)
Remove English title pages, so that scan begins at page “1”
Scan from end of volume, last page first
Insert so that highest page is face down with numbered-edge inserted into adf
25-30 sheets or less in adf: if pages do not feed, first try resetting the sheets in the adf; if this does not work remove some sheets and put less per batch in the adf. 25 sheets (that is 50 numbered pages) seems to work well.
Press “scan”
Check each sheet as it comes through the scanner. Make sure only one sheet at a time feeds.

Saving as .tiff with macro (download THDL.atn):

Close Twain Driver
File>Automate>Batch… Play.
Set: THDL.atn
Action: SaveTHDLPageScan
Source: Opened Files
Destination: Folder
Choose: Desktop>new folder>karmapa-kg-v000 (ie., 001, 002, etc.)
Override Action “Save As” Commands: Check
Document name: “karmapa-kg-v001-p” + 4 Digit Serial Number + extension. Note: as of 1 June 2009, the format for the file name should be kt-d-v001-p####.extension (kt=name of the collection, kangyur-tengyur; d=Dege version). Since we have scanned more than one printing of the Dege Kangyur, the Karmapa version has the siglum "d" and the Library of Congress version has the siglum "d1"
Start serial #: begin with “1”; all subsequent must begin with number on page (ie., all filename serial #s must match the page number of the blockprint. Example: blockprint page 51 will have the starting serial number “51”.)
Press: OK

Note: The macro saves the images as both .tiff and .jpeg files
Note: the macro is saved as THDL.atn at Collab>Resources>Kangyur Photoshop Macro. To activate macro place THDL.atn on Desktop, then go to action pallete>Load Actions>THDL.atn file>Load

When to save:

Option 1: Save after every batch of approximately 35 sheets. NOTE: must manually input page number beginning from last page scanned. Filename numbers must match page numbers on printed.
Option 2: Save after half a volume has been scanned (approximately 20 minutes). NOTE: must manually input page number beginning from last page scanned. Filename numbers must match page numbers on printed.
Option 3: Save after entire volume has been scanned (approximately 40 minutes)

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