In 2021 a grant of $900 from the Borough of Queenscliffe to the FQHA allowed us to purchase a new document scanner, our first book scanner, the Czur ET18 Pro.

While it makes excellent copies of photographs and pictures it comes into its own when handling multi page items like books. The scanner not only automatically selects the right size for the document and digitises the image but splits it into to two separate pages and ‘flattens’ them out on the scanned image. Furthermore, the software enables you to save the images as a straight photo or PDF, or in a format that is readable by the computer allowing you to search the text for particular words or sentences. A great boon to researchers.

We thank the Borough for this opportunity improve to our scanning and research capabilities … Thankyou.