Dpubs

DPubS (Digital Publishing System) is an open-source software system designed to enable the organization, presentation, and delivery of scholarly journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other common and evolving means of academic discourse. DPubS was conceived by Cornell University Library to aid colleges and universities in managing and disseminating the intellectual discoveries and writing of scholars and researchers.

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.

eXtensible Catalog (XC)

The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project is working to design and develop a set of open-source applications that will provide libraries with an alternative way to reveal their collections to library users. XC will provide easy access to all resources (both digital and physical collections) across a variety of databases, metadata schemas and standards, and will enable library content to be revealed through other services that libraries may already be using, such as content management systems and learning management systems. XC will also make library collections more web-accessible by revealing them through web search engines.

Summa

Summa is a search engine, that simultaneously can access a number of different data and data sources. Summa presents the results for the user in a single search result sorted by relevance. The user can also prioritise the result after a number of different criteria.

Meresco

MERESCO stands for Metadata based Repository Search Components in Open source and is a complete set of components for search and retrieve functionality. MERESCO is based on open source technology and uses open communication standards such as OAI-PMH and SRU/SRW. While MERESCO is a generic software suite it’s primary use is aimed at the educational environment.

OCRopus

OCRopus(tm) is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multi-lingual capabilities.


http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/

The Book Ripper Project

Bkrpr is a set of free software and hardware that helps you digitize books. Some of our hardware designs make it easy to photograph all the pages in a book without harming the book. Other designs allow you to remove the binding so the pages can be dropped into a sheet-fed scanner. Whichever method you use, the resulting images can be processed with our software to make user-friendly files in a variety of formats.

http://bkrpr.org