DIY Book Scanner

Muchos gracias pelas fotos .
I am impressed with your excellent work, and the clear instructions. What kind of documents will you be scanning?

Bravo - well done!
David Landin

Hola Daniel
Bien hecho - su escáner se ve excelente. Me gusta cómo usaste la iluminación. Y las fotos del libro parecen muy claras.
David Landin

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...

Hi Kurt

Sounds very interesting to make the scanner from wood. I would very much like to see photos of the finished product!

David Landin

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...

You could also look at this video of a large version of my scanner which is being used in Pittston to scan town records

http://www.viddler.com/v/e2ae5929

David Landin

Thanks everyone for your helpful suggestions. I am not replying to each post, but I am reading carefully what everyone has to say . . . and learning

David Landin

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...