DIY Book Scanner

Good luck at the faire! Give us an update on how things went.

Glad to see you got things "squared away". You must not have tried the same silicone material that I'm using. The Siconi pads that I have are about as sticky as double-stick tape. I can put one of those silicone pads on the door of my stainless steel refrigerator and it will hold the weight of a boo...

It works after a fashion, but I'm still trying to solve the issues of physical drift of the book as I turn the pages. I'm experimenting with clamping dowels and creating some physical framing to hold the book still.

Put one of these under the book and your problems will be solved.

Another option: Since you only have a single page to worry about, just deskew the photo and create the text sections yourself in Word. Paste the photo into the document and you're done.

I'd probably just grab smaller sections of the document and skew them individually in Photoshop to try to get something that appears more flat, then stitch these processed sections back together into an image that represents the 8.5x11" page. There seem to be about six separate horizontal sections o...

If I was doing this I'd just save it as a PDF. Almost every device has a PDF viewer and it will allow the finished product to accurately represent the original. Have you looked through the forums at Mobileread.com? This site is more about the hardware side of book scanning and producing a collection...

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...