Scanning with the CLA Licence

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Aim

This course provides a thorough practical overview of how to digitise images and text from print-based materials. You will use a desktop scanner and related technology to effectively enable you to leverage the rights granted to you by the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) scanning licence.

Audience

This course is particularly aimed at those with little or no digitisation skills in order to prepare them for implementing the CLA scanning licence. However, this workshop will be relevant for anyone requiring fundamental skills in capturing text and images using a scanner and using OCR technology.

Content

• What is the CLA scanning licence?
• What you can and can't do under the CLA licence
• Buying a scanner - what to look for
• Scanning basics - understanding how your scanner works
• Creating PDFs
• Using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software
• Isolating images from text based materials
• Optimising scanned images for use on the web or in presentation software

Dates and locations

• New dates to be confirmed. Please contact us to express an interest in future dates.

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