DIY Book Scanner

1) anyone know a decent tripod, under or around $40 that can taking pictures downwards? aka 90 degree tilt. similar functions to an enlarger and copy stand in that it lets the camera face down. i need to take pictures of books by placing them on the ground and i need something decent 2) anyone knows...

i'm on an iphone 4, how do i get what my camera app is showing live to my pc so i can view what it's viewing there? there already some app call qik that does some live streaming and records it but i don't need something like that because 1) i just need the live feed only, no recording and 2) it need...

hello, how do i skip the select content and margin stages and go to output? the reason i want to do this is because i only fix the orientation and split my pages. that's all i need to do. however, i can't skip select content and this messes up things because select content messes up my pages, select...

i've tested a couple of page and for some pages, select content works well but for others, it only selecte a couple of paragraphs and omits alot of other information on the page. it's ok for a couple of pages cause i can do it myself but with hundreds of pages, this is a big problem. how can i solve...

cool thanks alot!

yea i was searching i found out how it was done lol however, the renameall.exe doesn't work for some reason, is there a new version or what programs do u recommend i use to rename the images?

i noticed that people use two cameras, each take a different page. my question is how does that work? how do the pics sync with each other so that it is continuous? for ex, if u take pictures with a single camera, then you take a pic of page 1, then page 2....so the pages stored are contiguous pages...

i'm totally new to diy scanners and everything, what light bulb show i use to produce good lighting? anyone got links to ones that they recommend? amazon or ebay links?

i have a canon powershot sd990 but i could not find any shutter release switches for it online. is there a way to control it without pressing the button on the camera itself? i hear that the canon eos has eos ultility where u can use the computer to remotely take pictures. are there such programs f...

Tulon wrote:Scan Tailor just can't do that. It was never meant as a collection of tools that you can apply selectively, but as an all-in-one solution where you go from raw scans to fully post-processed ones.

what software can do this then? i like scan tailor though, it's a smart program