DIY Book Scanner

Hey, it's cool. Please let me know if your shop is able to do it. Fact is, I probably did not explain this well enough on the Archivist pages.

Hi guys I think the link below is without the dimensions of each piece. Does anyone have the cut plane with the values ​​in millimeters ?? The company that cuts laser uses the dimensions in millimeters. http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/WoodParts5x5for19mmBalticBirch.zi...

Feels spammy to me.

https://www.solidsmack.com/cad-design-news/facing-bankruptcy-techshop-sadly-closes-14-locations/ Around the time I started work on the Hackerspace Scanner, I moved to Richmond, CA and started working at the Internet Archive. A bit of publicly-untold history is that I first tried to make the scanner ...

Makes sense to me. I like the idea of camera alignment marks on the frame - in my case, I painted the frames after they were laser cut so it was not economical. One suggestion was to use stickers instead of laser marking. When this project was started, 3D printing at the hobbyist level was pretty cr...

This is an important topic - and one dear to my heart. There is one important consideration which is that we need to be careful backing up/sharing the databases directly, because people's private messages and other stuff are in there. jlev, did this discussion ever go further? Do you want to help ou...

Greets and welcome!

Yeah, in the very first scanner, Aaron Clarke and I would take a picture of a blank piece of paper, and then subtract the inverse of that from the page image. It works, as long as your cameras have fixed settings and the camera-platen relationship doesn't change. If it changes at all, you need a new...

It's always great to see examples of people going through the full process like this.

Paperback mode is, i think, a term danielreetz brought up. It was intended to help scanning paperbacks which accidentally close whenever the cradle is lowered. One can turn the whole Image-Module upside-down to have the glass pointing upwards. That enables you to take paperbacks and scan them face-...