Linux.com | Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history

Linux.com | Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history:
The Library of Congress, where thousands of rare public domain documents relating to America’s history are stored and slowly decaying, is about to begin an ambitious project to digitize these fragile documents using Linux-based systems and publish the results online in multiple formats.

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The sloan foundation has funded this development. It uses scribe, which is a bookscanning system.