iScan has long dedicated itself to the R&D of cultural relic digitization technologies and launched a complete set of non-contact scanning solutions for ancient books. It is applicable to the digitization of thread-bound ancient books, rare editions, rubbings, ancient maps, handwritten unique manuscripts and other collections, balancing operational efficiency and the safety of cultural relic preservation.
Ancient books have a long history with thin, brittle and fragile paper. Conventional scanning adopts heavy flattening modes that may damage books, while our equipment retains the original binding structure without disbinding. The book spine hangs naturally without being squeezed throughout the whole process. The whole machine is equipped with soft cold light sources free of ultraviolet rays, featuring even and gentle illumination to slow down paper aging caused by long-term light exposure.
Tailored for precious cultural relics including thread-bound ancient books, rare editions, rubbings, ancient maps and handwritten unique manuscripts housed in libraries, ancient book repositories, museums and university special collection departments, our solution adopts lossless non-contact capture to build a one-stop ancient book digitalization system integrating hardware acquisition, intelligent image processing, ancient book OCR recognition, metadata cataloging and digital resource library. The whole process requires no disbinding or compression damage with minimal light harm, fully complying with national standards and specifications for ancient book digitization.
Core Hardware: iScan Non-contact Ancient Book Scanners
Flagship Model: iS8000 Non-contact Ancient Book Scanner
