DIY Book Scanner

Actually, 8MP over an 8 1/2 x 11 book works out to about 292 DPI

I agree that for this project, a single Arduino should be sufficient.

Can you send me your current sketch? Include your Pololu code as well. I'll see if I can add what you are looking for.

I've done some work with programming the Arduino, and interfacing it with different temperature probes, solenoids, servos, displays, etc. What sort of help do you need? Its not really feasible to whip up some controller code for a device I don't have, but I might be able to help with specific proble...

Glad to hear you were able to figure it out, and thanks for letting me know you are using the software. The more I hear about people using it, the more likely I am to continue to improve it.

I found out the development version of ST works fine... there must have been a bug with the standard version.

When I try setting the content box using the command line version of ScanTailor (version 0.9.11.1) I get a clipped image. Instead of starting the image at 0,0 it is about 2/3's down the page Here's the command I'm using. (The image size is 2736x3648). scantailor-cli --dpi=300 --content-box=0x0:2736x...

I've released BSW 2.0.1 which has the following enhancements: This will work with the free OCR program Tesseract to automatically OCR pages that are saved to PDF files. This means you can use BSW to take source images directly from the camera, combine the left & right images, perform the needed crop...

The newest version of BSW will retain the DPI of source images.

PDF's can be set to display the first page by itself. In Adobe viewer you can choose "Show cover page in two page view" In Adobe acrobat you can make the pdf default to that view, by choosing File, Properties, initial view, page layout, "2-up continuous" Book scan wizard will automatically show the ...

I uploaded another version of BSW that has a couple of enhancements for you. You can change pdf's to default to the single page view, with scrolling or page by page: CreatePDF = book.pdf Options=Single,Scrolling or CreatePDF = book.pdf Options=Single You also can do pretty much any other default pdf...