DIY Book Scanner

OK. And how does that look after running through something like Tesseract? Or Abby? Does the OCRed file translate better than the original?

Thanks,
WTB

But are the PDF'd files fairly small? By converting the files to a text based EPUB format you can get an entire book in under 500k. I wouls have to think a 300 page PDF is going to be fairly large in size. As a side note - I've been hammering away with .Net and have cleaned up the files immensly. I'...

Hello All! I'm kind of new to the whole thing. I've assebled the book scanner. (Quite the snazzy job!) Photographed a series of pages into Left and Right folders. (only got a single camera right now....so turning books and etc.) Wrote a program to renumber all of my pages appropriatly. (Go .Net!) Ra...

Daniel,
Just got the kit assembled. It's a great kit. I'm going to make some tweaks on the handle and the V-tray...but otherwise this thing rocks.

Took longer to paint the thing black than to assemble it.

wbest