DIY Book Scanner

Yeah, pictures would be helpful. You can always post them to a site like imgur.com and paste the URL here.

I've scanned magazines to PDFs in the past and the process differs somewhat from scanning books with black text on white pages. One difference that you've discovered already is that magazines will frequently have page content that gets very close to the gutter. You can also have photographs that spa...

Listing the current version numbers of the various flavors would be beneficial.

Okelvin, Thanks for providing the original image. I didn't experience the problem that you saw. I used the default setting for ST version 0.9.11.1 (64-bit, non-enchanced version) and viewed the output in Black & White and in Mixed output mode and the page was displayed as you would expect. I can pos...

Can you post a link to the second image (page 208) as it came right from the camera (without the shading and selection rects added by ST)?

Might be interesting to see the ScanTailor result of that same page without using your image averaging step. What ISO setting are you using?

I'd try something like these, as they are cheap and would offer a bit of grip that would help to turn pages: Harbor Freight 9 mil Black Nitrile Gloves If I were using my thumbs in the outer margins to hold the book open while shooting (i.e. not using a platen to hold down the pages), I'd use a blue ...

If you're not aware of mobileread.com, you might want to check out the forums there. Lots of tips and info on the various software tools for creating epub files. More here.

I too began my quest to scan all the books from my personal library as ePub. I soon discovered the same issue with AABBYY that you did in that this takes a LOT of hand tweaking to correct all of the OCR and formatting mistakes. I finally gave up and decided to save the books as PDF using Adobe Acrob...

Has anyone done a comparison of ScanTailor's performance before and after installing Microsoft's Meltdown bug patch?