Daniel Reetz, the founder of the DIY Book Scanner community, has recently started making videos of prototyping and shop tips. If you are tinkering with a book scanner (or any other project) in your home shop, these tips will come in handy. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn0gq8 ... g_8K1nfInQ
It is looking very good ! I don't think the right side of the book support with the cooling racks will slip too much. Another way I have just thought of for positioning the right side of the book support might be to use that wonderful non-slip drawer liner that I've used on the book supports to stop...
Hi Louroboros Well first of all many congratulations on getting on so well with your scanner project! What you have made looks great to me. Thanks for pointing out the discrepancy on the two platen size measurements. I am planning to get the whole machine measured once again and this time it will be...
Hi Louroboros Thanks for your long message and questions. I have got a scanner in the house at the moment - normally it is being used in a library. So I am going to do a full measurement of the entire machine, which I will post. However I am away for 2 and a half days this week, and I am working ofn...
I've made a couple of modifications to the latest version of the scanner. The main change has been a widening of the platen angle to 110 degrees. The main reason for this was that it opens the book just that bit more and thereby enables the cameras to see text better close to the gutter. This change...
Has anyone reported research on the speed of the cycle from taking one image to taking the next image, saving as RAW files on a Canon DSLR with a 10 rating SD card? I ask this because Using my Nikon 5200 DSLR it is taking 40 seconds using a fast SD card, and the files are coming out about 24mb. When...