DIY Book Scanner

The first thing that I'd check is your external storage device. This is an error that is occurring as it tries to write the photograph out to it. So if there was a file system corruption or bad sectors on the device, that would be the most likely problem. Scan the thumb drive or SD card with a compu...

I was the one who did the conversion from the original Wordpress to the current static site version. If you want to do a more manual and thorough conversion in the near future, I can wait until your finished and post the result here. If it will be a longer term project for you, then let me know and ...

Sorry for not responding sooner on the other thread. When I was developing Pi Scan, there seemed to be no benefit to grayscale mode on the cameras. The images were not appreciably smaller and the delay on capture was not any quicker. So I decided not to include it. So I'd recommend changing to grays...

It looks like you are not actually running CHDK on the cameras. The 'Found gphoto cameras' is a bad sign. It means that it thinks your cameras are higher end gphoto cameras rather than CHDK cameras. So here is how you verify that your cameras are running CHDK. When you first turn on the camera, look...

Overall, the quality of a DIY Book Scanner is going to be higher than the flatbed scanners (near the gutters). Away from the gutters, the sensors of flatbed scanners will likely yield better results. But you will always have distorted or cut off text near the gutter since the page curves. DIY scanne...

Pi Scan does not yet support the Pi 4. I have purchased one and hope to be able to update Pi Scan to work with it soon, but I don't have a timeline for that right now. If you are planning on buying a Pi just to be a scanner, I would say just to get a Pi 3 since I don't expect the changes to the Pi 4...

I'd recommend that you read through the entire set of documents on the Archivist scanner here: http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/ This includes links to all the design files and descriptions of all the parts necessary. The DXF design files themselves are linked from there as well. Just go to the b...

You should expect about 4 seconds per cycle which is roughly the same speed at which you can safely turn the page when you are in a rhythm. However, the exact speed will depend on the external storage (thumb drive in the case of the video), the quality of the camera (higher end cameras produce large...

The secondary reflection from the other side is only completely absent at 180 degrees (flat platen). As you decrease the platen angle more and more, the secondary reflection will slowly spread from the gutter side and eventually if you had a 0 degree angle (completely parallel), you would see a comp...

Get power adapters right away. Taking cameras off mounts to change batteries is really terrible. I had to do that on my first setup and I still get nightmares.