DIY Book Scanner

Countersink bit - Sears or even your local auto parts store will likely have this. There's also places like Harbor Freight Tools that will have it (there's a HF in Austin). Yeah, HFT didn't have one either, which is why I called it out, in case it was an unusual size. Disclaimer: I've never seen or...

Today, we built the book scanner at the Austin Hackerspace.

It's not fully operational yet, but it's assembled. Another day or two of effort and it'll be ready for trial use.

Here's the build thread, and here are my notes on using the new assembly manual to build it.

Today, I spent the entire day building the Hackerspace kit using the new manual as my sole source of instruction. I just posted feedback on the manual in that thread, but here I'm going to detail issues with the kit and the build itself. My kit arrived a few months ago, with the box rather damaged ....

Today, I spent the entire day building the Hackerspace kit using the new manual as my sole source of instruction. Here, I'm just going to list the issues we encountered with the manual as it currently exists, in order of the manual pages. I'll make a separate thread for the build and additional inst...

daniel_reetz wrote:Hi, the kits do not come with cameras. I'm currently suggesting the A2200IS or A810.

The A810? I thought the wide-angle ones caused added distortion.

Now I'm wondering if I should return my A2200s and get the A810s for the MP bump...

After a little back and forth, the Austin Hackerspace has voted to host a DIY book scanner on a trial basis. (I assume the concern is around whether the general public will overwhelm the space with blatantly illegal scanning.) Rather than build one myself and then donate a second to the hackerspace,...

Ordered a kit when this weekend's batch went up. It arrived today. The box is slightly damaged: it looks like a side and corner were punctured to make something of a handle. I searched for "damage" and "shipping" and didn't see anything; is there anything in particular I should look out for when I g...

Strikes me that this is a problem of intent. Oh, absolutely. My intent was to get the books preserved and made available again in a reasonable format and somewhat expediently. 400dpi JPEGs and OCR text are a good first effort at preserving these materials. A typographer's intent is to be able to zo...

Has anyone played with doing really, really high-resolution scanning? Like 2000dpi+? For a 12"x12" scanner, that's 24,000 pixels in each direction, or a... 1.6GB raw image? Some desktop scanners can do that. Drum scanners can do that and better if you don't mind destroying the book by feeding indivi...

Also being discussed in the R&D forum: http://www.diybookscanner.org/forum/vie ... =17&t=2720