DIY Book Scanner

Seen in the last two days, same thing, 2 different sites + the origin both reference. https://petapixel.com/2019/11/18/this-guy-hacked-together-a-diy-cable-release-for-his-point-and-shoot/ https://hackaday.com/2019/11/18/a-mechanical-shutter-release-for-a-digital-camera/ https://www.instructables.co...

Looks a bit like another Kinect derivative. I still think structured light solutions (projector-camera) are the way to go. As far as I can tell from the datasheet this is a structured light scanner (as is the Kinect). A moment ... Page 6: Scanning technology 3D depth sensing camera (IR Diffractive ...

Came across http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/10/hps-sprout-pc-is-like-a-real-version-of-iron-mans-jarvis/ While a not a laser scanner, possibly also able to reconstruct the surface of the book sitting under scanner with good enough a resolution. The overhead 3D scanner is now available standalon...

That sounds interesting. What program are you using? If it is available I might want to investigate it. It's not available but I'm happy to answer any questions you may have about it. Well, without the (sources to the) program available the next best thing would be (IMHO) a general overview of your...

Another blog article and tool by Matt Zucker.
See https://mzucker.github.io/2016/10/11/un ... ipses.html

Matt Zucker writing about a small tool of his to clean up scanned hand-written notes.

At: https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html

Might be usable for photo scans too. He also has an article about page dewarping.

Assiociated YT channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFcbrx ... jDDH6NAd0w.
Googling for the name + "czur" I further find http://www.johnwillis.com/.
A large series of posts.

I should possibly ask, can you tell us where you found the link ?
I am watching the teleread site where I found Czur first, and did not see anything there yet.

Take a look here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTT7ai8GyzM

Thanks. Bookmarked for the evening.

aku, that does look pretty cool. It would make it easier to get just one page at a time. I look forward to seeing it get out of the lab and into the hands of ordinary makers. :) Well, doing a Google search for https://www.google.ca/search?q=diy+electroadhesion has quite a bit of results, instructab...