On ELARSKAN A2-400 will digitize Old Belief books

ELAR corporation delivered the planetary scanner of ELARSKAN A2-400 in the Old Belief spiritual and educational center "Krinitsa". Using the new equipment the organization will create a public digital library.

"We will digitize Old Belief book monuments and to place their copies in a public digital library", - the CEO of the Krinitsa center Mikhail Pankratov tells. The project will make available, both for the general public, and for narrow specialists, unique editions which are stored in Archive and library department at the Metropolitanate of the Russian orthodox Old Belief church.

ELARSKAN of A2-400 purchased by the spiritual and educational center is the professional scanner of a broad spectrum of application. It is suitable for stream high-quality digitization of the sewed and flat documents, books, magazines, archive documents, etc. However the book cradle of ELARSKAN of A2-400 gives the chance of change of angles of disclosure when scanning of the old and dense sewed editions that does the device especially suitable for work with book monuments.

"The scanner supports preserving of the digitized images in all popular graphic formats including multipage TIFF and PDF, - the expert in the equipment and digitization of ELAR corporation Alexander Kuznetsov tells. – In the TIFF format the digital copies of editions transferring everything nuances of originals can be made, and the PDF format is the most convenient now just for reading books in digital libraries".