DIY Book Scanner

I had a setup a few years ago when cameras were expensive and I could not afford them that used several mirrors on a rotating triangle. The camera did not move but the triangle moved and it showed the different pages. It worked okay at the time but I did not investigate further because the quality f...

I'll check out gPhoto2. It looks pretty interesting. I guess I will be going the Linux route for picture capture is this is the case. I browsed down the the list and it looks like the Canon PowerShot G10 is fully supported. I was looking at the camera already because it has a high Megapixel so that ...

Hello, I am going to have my book scanner frame completed this week so I'm moving to the next logical set: looking for cameras and software. I was thinking that cameras that could be controled from the computer over use would be useful. Has anybody explored that option? EDIT: I guess I am asking wha...

Hello, I'm a network engineer with an unfinished history degree that I plan to start working on again as soon as time and money allow. I love books and have thousands in my house. I like old books, sewn binding, leather and all that. Before perfect binding and the crap that passes as a book today. M...

I am building a scanner to preserve old books. My current plan is to make PDF documents because the page is as important as the text in some cases.
For the future though I was wondering if anyone knew of an option that could take a page, OCR it, and display it as searchable HTML text or so.