Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka being scanned in as picture files

Dear members,

For your information. A volunteer at the BPS has started to scan in the
Pali of the Buddha Jayanthi Tipitaka. The picture files will be put as
PDFs on the internet. In this way the original text can be accessed by
scholars who know Sinhala script.
As you might already know, the typed in version which was put online
some years ago was for the most part not properly proofread.
The DN has already been scanned in. The whole Tipitaka might take quite
a while, it takes about a book a week, but after it is finished we hope
to continue with scanning in the Simon Hewawitarne
edition of the commentaries, and also the Tikas and other Pali texts
published in Sri Lanka. Some old, 19th century, editions of Pali texts
have never been reprinted and are in danger of being lost because the
books are disintegrating.
Each page is being scanned in at 200 DPI grayscale, which gives a well
readable page onscreen.

With metta,
                      Bh Nyanatusita