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Presenters: Jonathan Hung James Yoon

Presenters: Jonathan Hung James Yoon. What is Decapod?. Decapod is a project focused on building a low-cost digitization solution that will allow for rare materials, materials held in collections without large budgets, and other scholarly content to be digitized into a

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Presenters: Jonathan Hung James Yoon

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  1. Presenters: Jonathan Hung James Yoon

  2. What is Decapod? Decapod is a project focused on building a low-cost digitization solution that will allow for rare materials, materials held in collections without large budgets, and other scholarly content to be digitized into a high-quality PDF format. This project will work to incorporate the hardware and software necessary to accomplish this goal.

  3. Who is Decapod? Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

  4. Goals

  5. Users & Applications Staff and Volunteers • Spend less time training, more time working • Low barrier to entry (non-experts welcome!) Collection Digitization • Small to medium paper collections • Preservation of rare and unique material • Mobile solution = no need to remove from premises • Non-destructive

  6. Features and Their Significance • Camera-based capture • Non destructive • (not a flatbed scanner!) • Employ computer vision techniques to create archive quality digitizations • Ease-of-Use • Low barrier to entry • Pleasant user experience

  7. Features and Their Significance • Cost-effective • Reduced captial cost: consumer products and open source • Reduced operational cost: leverage who you have already • Simple all-in-one package • Hardware and software, without the need for deep skill or resource investment

  8. Output • TIFF, PDF and hOCR output • Can be searchable • Variable fidelity • Flexible output • Reflowable • Font generation

  9. Design & Development • Decapod not yet an existing solution; being designed and developed from scratch (sort of) • Engines: • Tesseract (HP, Google) • Ocropus (DFKI) • Behaviour and interface: • Fluid Infusion (ATRC)

  10. Design & Development • Inclusive design • Design that benefits everyone • “Curb-cut advantage” • User-centered design • Design that focuses on user considerations first and foremost • Results in a more pleasant working experience

  11. Design & Development • Competitive analysis with other solutions • User and subject matter expert research • Interviews, contextual inquiries, etc. • Quick sketches by users and experts • Quick implementations of prototypes • Tested by users, reviewed by experts • Many iterations and refinements

  12. Envisioned Product Prototype Capture System

  13. Additional Information • Search for “Decapod Project” • http://sites.google.com/site/decapodproject • http://www.fluidproject.org • Jonathan.hung@utoronto.ca • James.yoon@utoronto.ca Thank you!

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