DIY Book Scanner

Those of you who have followed the evolution of my scanner may recall the original version, before I started using a smart-phone camera, used Daniel Reetz' bike bike brake idea to trigger the shutter of the small point-and-shoot camera I used. The hardware needed to fasten the shutter trigger mechan...

This is really clever. I have to hand it to you DPC, you are gifted with an astute mechanical intelligence. As I read your suggestions, I couldn't help but remember this remark by Daniel in his farewell messages when he was "retiring": DPC, your long presence here (and clever ideas) have always mean...

Thanks for the input. I will fiddle with the configuration of the arm and see if I can get it connected to the back of the desk. At this point, I'm looking for any speed ups I can find so will be fine-tuning all that. I'm firmly in the ~600 page/hour range and want to get that closer to 1000. Looki...

1. Glue the two 90 degree fittings to the handle. Getting these to be in line with each other on such a short length of pipe is pretty easy. Do you think step 1 could be done in the same "physical" manner as the others steps, rather than even measuring by: 1a . Gluing one 90 degree fitting (no alig...

Now that's clever! Never even struck me to try it that way.

I was actually responding to GenioDiabolico who probably just wants to get his book collection scanned and not mess around with new steel cables and pipe lengths. Yes I'm sure he does! Perhaps you may find accurately gluing 6 joints easier than making one cable, but I didn't having unsuccessfully t...

Hi DPC, About my using a cable vs. gluing everything, a while back you had asked: What's the purpose of that cable that's threaded through the PVC tubing? Is that just to hold the individual pieces together? Perhaps you missed my answer: Yes, to avoid gluing parts so they can be reused with a larger...

Thanks for the reply. I posted my blog last night, long discussion of the ins and outs of my experience. I also posted my bash script equivalents of yours to GitHub in case anyone wants to fiddle with them. http://evilgeniuschronicles.org/2018/09/25/my-build-of-the-tiflic-diy-bookscanner/ https://g...

I'll try and find a Greek book from my library and do a test, but a lot of the problems you say you are having I don't find I have at all. As I mentioned 4 years ago when I first posted the design, I developed this scanner primarily for OCR (using Abbyy Fine Reader) after processing the images throu...

dpc was on the money. I got my Siconi mat and then scanned a book. It held MUCH better than my previous mat. By holding it in place reliably it meant that I scanned faster and that the output was more consistent and thus had better results out of Scan Tailor and OCR. Thanks for the suggestion. This...