It’s not the most thrilling read, but nice to have nonetheless. I bought a published edition of Yazjī Ughlū’s (d. What does it do, exactly?Īllow me to demonstrate with an example from my own work. No time to mourn out of the ashes has arisen a newer, better, and still very much free version called ScanTailor Advanced. What that exactly means is not very important, the practical consequence is that older software simply does not work anymore on the latest computers.

This has become a more pressing issue, now that the latest version of MacOS (Catalina) does not support 32 bit applications. I talked about ScanTailor before, but I did not go into how to install it on a Mac. Let us take a look at how to set things up and what to expect. ScanTailor is here to help, to turn those clunky photos into a neat and crisp PDF, that, with effort, can look as though it came straight from the publisher. We end up with photos of pages that are warped and rotated, often with a lot of the surrounding showing, saved as files that are very large. When we cannot find a digitized version on the internet, we photograph or scan a book or article ourselves. Digital Orientalist’s 2022 Conference “Infrastructures”.The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Workshop and Conference 2021.

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