User:Alexander Roidl/bookscanning

transformative processes

When scanning books what happens?

• transforming knowledge
• creating new file
• creating new »content«
• new possibilities of processing (OCR, analysis…)
• revealing informationlayers (printing technique)
• turning an analog medium into a digital file
• display is changing

scanning as a tool

• creating graphics / visuals out of scanned pages

• missuse -> new unexpected results