The Humanities Media Interface Project at Keio University in Japan has been producing high-resolution digital images of old texts, such as the Gutenberg Bibles at the British Library. They are now working on a first edition of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The creation of the digital images is surprisingly swift. 1,300 pages of the bibles were photographed in just 4 days. The team can obtain even higher resolution results using scanning cameras instead of “single shot”.
(Note: The web pages displayed fine on my browser without installing Japanese characters.)