DIY Book Scanner

I also think that PDF is probably the best solution. When it comes to workflow and tools used, my approach would be probably as follows: 1. Color options I would rather suggest to scan in color than in greyscale. Flatbed scanners usually scan in color and in grayscale with the same speed (correct me...

iPhone 7 is not equipped with jack audio connector so it may be difficult to find a cable trigger. Maybe lightning jack adapter may help? I haven't tried this. I also encountered some connection problems with this bluetooth shutter, but only minor and find this the most convenient solution.

Interesting design. How well do the book scans look? I also like this design and made myself similar device. I applied following modifications: 1. made of 3 mm High Impact Polystyrene Sheet (HIPS); 2. the construction is glued and reinforced with screws and L-shaped elements (sheet are rather thin ...

This is my attempt. I used Scan Tailor Experimental and manual mode in ("curved lines") in "Geometric Distortions" section. More patient adjustments of the grid may provide a little bit better result. Maybe Abbyy FineReader and its "Straighten lines" function may do it better? I do not know. The bot...

If I understand it correctly, you need to extract graphics from pages including also text to perform some operations on these pictures with graphics only. Maybe you should think about Scan Tailor Advanced? When mixed output applied (letters to b&w and pictures in color mode) there is an option to sa...

A new update with new features, fixes and improvements has been released. Also if anyone wants to support the project or express thanks, please donate. I would like to express my thanks :D I really appreciate development of this great software and the new features I had chance to see earlier checki...

Newer versions of Acrobat Pro join lines into paragraphs and in general try to save layout of original documents (as I remember Acrobat 11 Pro does). So usually no additional converting of line brakes into spaces is necessary (apart of typical OCR errors). Why do you think that this is so hard to d...

Well, I thank you for all of your advice. It kind of appears to be a hellava lot of work to create an epub because the text needs to be basically rebuilt, or rewritten into MS Word or some other word processor and then converted to an epub. You are fully right. There is a lot of work to convert pdf...

Have you done tests comparing Acrobat against ImageMagick or other open tools for pdf to jpg image render? There are some ImageMagick recipes here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6605006/convert-pdf-to-image-with-high-resolution I tried various methods in the past. My first method was pdf2tiff ...

While on the topic of pdf to images: In my experience some pdf files unpack to images with negative black and white colors. To fix that run GraphicsMagick's convert command on the images with the command parameter -negate . I guess this happens in case of MRC compressed pdf files. https://en.wikipe...