Digital Humanities: Equipment

Slim and Fast

The Avision AV176U is designed for desktop use in any office where scanning plastic ID cards, business cards, documents or other heavy card stock is necessary. Despite its small size, the AV176U offers high-speed scanning at rates up to 30 ppm in simplex and 60 ipm in duplex mode.

Sketch Engine is a tool for building, managing and exploring large text collections in dozens of languages. Sketch Engine is a tool to explore how language works. Its algorithms analyze authentic texts of billions of words (text corpora) to identify instantly what is typical in language and what is rare, unusual or emerging usage. It is also designed for text analysis or text mining applications. Sketch Engine contains 500 ready-to-use corpora in 90+ languages, each having a size of up to 30 billion words.

SkELL (Sketch Engine for Language Learning) is a simple tool for students and teachers of English to easily check whether or how a particular phrase or a word is used by real speakers of English.

• For access, please refer to msperiodicals@savion.huji.ac.il

Ultimaker 2+ Ultimaker Cura (program)

Take your first step into the world of easy and seamless 3D printing

For more information contact: saragr@savion.huji.ac.il (Sara Grosvald)

Convert, edit, share, and collaborate on PDFs and scans in the digital workplace.

FineReader PDF empowers professionals to maximize efficiency in the digital workplace. Featuring ABBYY’s latest AI-based OCR technology, FineReader PDF makes it easier to digitize, retrieve, edit, protect, share, and collaborate on all kinds of documents in the same workflow. Now, information workers can focus even more on their expertise and less on administrative tasks.

Write your own legendary Odyssey and live an epic adventure in a world where every choice matters. Sentenced to death by your family, embark on an epic journey from outcast mercenary to legendary Greek hero, and uncover the truth about your past. Forge your path through a war-torn world shaped by gods and men, where mountains and sea collide. Meet Ancient Greece’s famous figures and discover a pivotal point in history that shaped western civilization.

Assassin’s Creed® Odyssey brings player choice to the forefront through innovations never-before-seen in Assassin’s Creed as you choose the hero you want to become and change the world around you. Through the relationships you build with colourful characters and the decisions you make along your Odyssey, it is you who is in control of your destiny. Customize your equipment and master new special abilities, tailoring your hero’s skillset to your play style. Fight your way across Greece, engaging in visceral battles both on land and sea, to become a true hero of legend

Features

• BECOME A LEGENDARY GREEK HERO – In a first for the Assassin’s Creed franchise, you can choose which hero to embody throughout this epic journey, Alexios or Kassandra. Customize your gear, upgrade your abilities, and personalize your ship on your path to become a legendary Greek hero.
• DELVE INTO ANCIENT GREECE – From the heights of snowy mountain peaks to the depths of the Aegean Sea, explore an entire country full of untamed environments and cities, at the peak of Greece’s Golden Age. Unexpected encounters will breathe life into your story as you meet colourful characters, battle vicious mercenaries, and more.
• CHOOSE YOUR OWN PATH – Your decisions shape the world around you with over 30 hours of choice dialogue and multiple game endings. Experience a living, dynamic world that constantly evolves and reacts to your every decision.
• FIGHT EPIC BATTLES – Demonstrate your extraordinary warrior abilities and shift the tides of battle during the Peloponnesian War. Charge into epic clashes between Sparta and Athens in Big Battles pitting 150 vs 150 soldiers against each other.
• SAIL ACROSS THE AEGEAN SEA – Find uncharted locations, uncover hidden treasures or cleave your way through entire fleets in naval battles. Customize the look of your ship, upgrade weaponry to suit your strengths, and recruit crewmembers with unique perks, tailoring naval combat to your style.
• A LAND OF MYTHS & LEGENDS – Discover a world rich with myths and legends. From ancient rituals to famed statues, come face-to-face with Greece’s legendary figures and discover the truth behind the myths.

ScanSnap SV600

• One-button overhead scanning technology
• Scans bound material and flat documents
• Scans an A3 size area in less than 3 seconds
• CCD optic with fast LED illumination
• Book curve image-flattening technology
• Erase finger from image function
• Auto crop, de-skew and rotation features
• Auto page-turn detection sensor
• Timed interval scanning mode
• USB 2.0 connectivity
• Searchable PDF, PDF and JPEG creation
• Single scan multiple document cropping function

Lightweight, Easy-to-use

The FB5000 is Avision's next generation of A3 flatbed scanner. Based on CIS (Contact Image Sensor) technology, the scanner is much more slimmer compared to traditional scanner with CCD design.

Capable of scanning up to A3 size, the slim FB5000 is perfectly suited to scan complete book spreads, two letter-sized pages (simultaneously), large-format magazines, legal-sized documents, photographs and more, all in brilliant color.

In addition, the scanner comes with the convenient feature of multiple images cropping. With this feature, various sizes of documents such as photos, ID Cards, or business cards can be placed on the flatbed and the scanner is able to crop and create multiple images according to the original sizes of the documents in one single scan.

To increase ease of use, a convenient, programmable button feature permits users topre-set nine customized functions for different scanning needs. For example, you can send your image to nine preset destinations such as printer, e-mail, folder, or photo editing software application in PDF, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, or BMP file format by simply pressing a button.