How to win: Supply, Delivery, Installation & On-Site Maintenance of Digitisation Scanning Equipment

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The objective of this tender is to procure brand-new digitisation equipment and accompanying software (with licence) to support the high-quality, digital capture of a wide range of archival and heritage materials of varying size, thickness and weight in this Financial Year. We require a large format floor mounted image scanner (up to A0 size) with a mobile scanning bed. Among other features, it must be capable of manual access, integrated quality control, resolution up to 600PPI optical (however higher levels can be offered) and integrated software with OCR ability. The equipment required includes: • Overhead planetary scanner for fragile, rare, or bound documents like books and maps with a stand mounted camera system to capture images without any contact with the document. • The ability for the scanner to scan oversized documents, such as folios, plans, surveys, maps, atlases, books, illustrations, paintings, sketches and charts. • It should have the flexibility to allow for scanning of historic books that are unable to be fully opened due to their spine integrity and delicate condition. System Depth of Field - should be capable of scanning thick books and folded materials. Crad

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