DIY Book Scanner

This is my previous post reposted with the images embedded: I have completed my proof of concept for this raspberry HQ camera 16mm lens (Long post). The goal : setup a tethered control set of camera for the smallest budget possible, without compromising the PDF quality. the goal is 200€, but I can'...

No news on the shop. still down

I used to have an old standard build 1rst generation an my focus was at 53cm. http://www.critiqueslibres.com/blog/?attachment_id=1784 I am not sure if you need this 16mm. I think the 6mm should be ok but will not swear, just a feeling. Here is an example of such a build https://www.youtube.com/watch...

I am browsing aliexpress.com for the camera and contacting chinese producer in order to locate which product could do the following 3 features: - remote configure (to set foccus) - video flow (for online monitors) - remote shooting Stuff like that is maybe all we need : http://fr.aliexpress.com/item...

It is heavy book manipulations. There are consequences : - This cannot be a fast process. - the book will move every shot. you must have proper positionning marks or visual control of the shots so that to perform corrections. - many operations on the book. I would consider this for old book, as it m...

Really nice.

Beside the image lens capability, the smooth line feature capability may be of use when dealing with character rasterization.

In the same vein, I wonder if somebody already explored the new OpenCV 3 functionalities. The python port is just out, have not time yet to test this.

It is very interessting as a model, is it plexigass ? I would like to see more details on the fixation. There is no real craddle but 2 separates free parts of it, this will impact the stability of the location of the image. The book will move, the craddles may move. You may fix that with moving the ...

A very good soft, the best so far to prepare images for archive.org.
I appreciated a lot the control on the output size and the dewarping which provided good results even on badly distorted image.
I hope to see more update.

Nothing changes : As soon as I put the command into single or double escaped bracket, I got the function errors. Can you post a command that works on your setting. Actually with all the failures, I am not even sure of what should be code. If I remove the enclosing non-escaped double quotes, I get th...

This machine is a real beauty.

What is the bugdet for it and how many hours ?