I'm gonna be busy!

[Pa SxS]

The BOD recently approved equipment to digitize our records. I've purchased a digital DSLR camera, copy stand, LED lights, remote shutter release, and memory card. We have 70+ stock books with 200+ pages in each folder and 100 order books/IBM books each with around 300 pages per book. This does not include various correspondence books. I've copied 4 stock books so far.

I built a platform and secured it to the copy stand base. I made small pieces of wood and glued them to the platform so all I have to do is drop the paper within the the border and it will be aligned with the camera. The LED lights are mounted behind and above the camera and shine directly down onto the paper. Push the remote control shutter release and the picture is taken. Take the paper off and put it in the alignment tray to the left of the copy stand and put another paper back on the copy stand. Pretty simple and organized. It's just going to take a lot of time to complete the project.

This shouldn't impact my doing research letters in a timely manner. It will probably take 1 1/2 hours to do each stock book.