DIY Book Scanner

Looking again at Dorawen's thread, the glass store he used was able to easily smooth the sharp glass edges, rather than profile them for mitreing: My brother called the glass store, and they can totally smooth out the edges for us, they say, so I'll be taking the panes in to get one edge on each sm...

Dorawen in his 2021 project PVC pipe scanner with 100 degree platen finally decided to use a glass platen, and from memory managed to source glass with a profiled edge easily in his locality in Washington State, although I haven't so far found the reference for that in his long threads. From experie...

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As you have Photoshop, my suggestion would be to look at creating several simple macros to perform individual steps of your workflow, to assign them to keyboard shortcuts, and to then to step though your images applying the particular steps required for each image. Yes, when I started scanning I ha...

I spent so much time on this and now I have to use Photoshop to crop all the pages again. This book has around 200 pages so it will be long. I am considering scrapping all the ST output and splitting the pages one by one by hand on Photoshop - I think it will take me less time than cropping the mar...

+1 cross-platform NAPS2 for easily obtaining excellent results...

Clean, modern interface in Linux unlike many PDF tools.

Accepts existing image files as input, in addition to providing a scanning interface.

+1 cross-platform NAPS2 for easily obtaining excellent results...

Clean, modern interface in Linux unlike many PDF tools.

Accepts existing image files as input, in addition to providing a scanning interface.

Ok, did a test, as long as I don't try and split these pages for better compression, everything works out fine. Premature, perhaps, to offer a suggestion on that, but I recently discovered a cross-platform software new to me that did an excellent job of making images searchable, NAPS2 . I know that...

Many thanks for posting that, if you could also post it on the thread that provides the original German versions, that could greatly assiist anyone reading that thread...

In general, as you may know, online language translators such as DeepL can now be very useful.

I think in general people worry far too much about possible quality loss when resaving a few times to JPEG format, and it should certainly not be an issue when book scanning. I did some tests once, and even after resaving an image with fine detail not best suited to the format many times, it was nec...