JAMES HARDIMAN LIBRARY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY
Library Launches Digitisation Service
The Library has recently acquired two new high
quality scanners; a Kirtas 1200 book scanner and a
Bookeye 3 A1 scanner. The Kirtas 1200, acquired in
conjunction with The Moore Institute, is a high
quality book scanner. This model, also used by
Google Books, is capable of scanning over a
thousand pages of a bound volume per hour using a
robotic arm to turn the pages. The Kirtas scanner
comes with powerful OCR (optical character
recognition) software, which enables the user to
capture the text from a scanned book or document
and place it in a text file. Moore Institute
researchers have used the scanner and OCR
software to produce electronic editions of the works
of Thomas Moore as part of the Thomas Moore
Hypermedia Archive, and in the digitisation of
Dublin Penny Journal as part of TEXTE: Transfer of
If you are a member of NUI, Galway staff and are
Expertise in Technologies of Editing project.
interested in using the Library’s scanning
equipment to support your teaching or research,
The Bookeye 3 A1 scanner is suitable for scanning please contact Institutional Repository and
large format items such as newspapers, maps and Digitisation Librarian, Fergus Fahey - email:
ledgers. fergus.fahey@nuigalway ext 5961.
It is also suitable for scanning loose archival
Fergus Fahey
material, letters for example, because it is capable of
Institutional Repository
automatically detecting the dimensions of an item
and Digitisation Librarian.
before scanning it.
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