DIY Book Scanner

Confirmed. 2 x AC powered.

daniel_reetz wrote:if a meteor strikes your book scanner

Wow, I never realized Google was so intent on keeping their lead . . .

Who knew 5v power supplies were so dangerous?

A couple of font matching resources once the font is extracted:

http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
http://www.terra.es/personal/infern0/

Commercial Font Matcher:
http://www.stretchedout.com/products/fo ... tmatch.php

There are tools like Scanfont (Fontlab's product) which can pick up the gist of a font from images--the fonts in books are pretty tiny. However, there is a lot of information in a font (called hints) to help rasterize it at small fonts and devices (which improve with anti-aliasing.) Font matching wh...

daniel_reetz wrote:Would anyone prefer these to be wall-powered (220 or 120) vs. battery powered?
(says the guy who just bought a ton of battery packs...)

I would. The unit I'm constructing has a powerstrip for driving the cameras and lights, adding one in for the trigger would be nice.
-K

Nice work on the dewarping algorithms!
-K

I'll chip in the $50 I offered against when you do new handles (over and above the cost of the handles, of course.)
-K

Here's the details from SDM's website:
http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/sdm/ca1.htm

From SDM's website, the usage in Direct (Ricoh) mode is: "For the Ricoh, half-press to focus, full-press to start shooting-sequence and release to take photo."

Put me down for two.
-K

If you do make some more, including one or two for me, I'll personally donate $50 to the ongoing support of this site.