#citizenarchiving — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #citizenarchiving, aggregated by home.social.
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New-to-me, from Tom’s Hardware: DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books — team trains neural net on Photoshop edits to process 526,000 scans. “Around 2015, a trio of Pakistani friends took it upon themselves to digitize a large number of out-of-print books in Urdu, many of them lithographs — they call it the Ibteda Digital Library. They did it for the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/01/toms-hardware-diy-archivists-push-budget-nikons-to-902000-clicks-to-save-1800-rare-books-team-trains-neural-net-on-photoshop-edits-to-process-526000-scans/