Flachbettscanner für objektbegleitende Dokumente

Workstation with flat bed scanner for digitalisation of object-related documents

Scanner hardware

• plustec OpticPro A360
• Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

Digitization workstation - computer hardware and software

• Workstation
  • rolling table

• Hardware
  • Laptop (Dell XPS M1330)

• Software
  • DocAction (Plustek OpticPro A360), (assignment of keys at the scanner) included in delivery of the scanner.
  • IrfanView (for display screen and image editing)
  • AutoKey (for keyboard-control)
  • ScanTool (JAVA proprietary development)
  • ImageMagick (creating overview screens)
  • Tasman (BarCode detection)
  • Cygwin (Unix-shell, ssh, scp,...)

Digitizing server infrastructure

storage server for images, image web publication server, web server, database server - at the SNSB IT-Zentrum

Digitizing workflow

• Emptied capsule is placed on the scanner and scanned
• Desired part is cutted
• Barcode is read
• Image is saved under the barcode, date and time and can therefore easily be attributed to the corresponding dataset in the database

Contact persons

Dr. Konstanze Bensch

Tanja Weibulat