DIY Book Scanner

I am using FineReader 12 and I find it an excellent product and probably the best on the market for performing an OCR on captured images of books. FineReader suffers from the same problems that all of this family of "trial" software have. The DRM is just unwieldy and causes problems and FineReader i...

Technically you could build such a setup. However, you could really never take a scanner apart and build your own. A couple of problems are in the way. The most pressing is control. The scanner control software, device drivers, and the like are closed source and fairly obtuse. Sure, you could just g...

I've always found the biggest problem with Linux is how unstable the system can be with some of these updates to packages. You have a lot of core packages that for various reasons do not always act well after an update with already installed packages. If you are using the server for a particular tas...

Just a few more fixes (found it's helpful to enter the alt menu, take a shot, then exit the alt menu to keep the PTP system steady and not timeout after a number of shots), but also an enhancement allowing for a more "parallel" capture (speeding things up a bit) and I added a beep letting the user k...

Updated script file with a few fixes

If I remember correctly the remote setup is suppose to work off a change in voltage across the USB line. Best to take a voltmeter and place it across the remote and measure the output before and after the button is pushed to ensure you are creating the right differential.

I kept the camera loose and moved the camera till the correct orientation/position was achieved in the frame and marked the position. Then I used rubber washes to fill up the slack. I used rubber to avoid scratching and creating a little more friction.

As a participant in the Archivist Beta program, I developed a simple one webpage PHP script that works with CHDKPTP on a Linux server with Apache. It is designed to work with two cameras. It has some specifics designed into it for the Raspberry Pi Raspbian linux distribution, but should be easily mo...