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- 10 Nov 2011, 20:23
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Book Scanning - What You Can and Cannot Do
- Replies: 8
- Views: 189533
Re: Book Scanning - What You Can and Cannot Do
The United States probably has the strictest copyright laws in place Nop, that's not true. If you check here , it's a global report made by Consumers International where they list a number of questions to determine how good is the law from the point of view of consumers. EE.UU. is in the first plac...
- 19 Oct 2011, 21:57
- Forum: Scanners and Build Threads
- Topic: "Rahle"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5324
Re: "Rahle"
Did you check nalfonso's portable scanner?
http://www.diybookscanner.org/wiki/inde ... le_scanner
maybe is helpful for you, and also is well documented.
http://www.diybookscanner.org/wiki/inde ... le_scanner
maybe is helpful for you, and also is well documented.
- 14 Oct 2011, 20:19
- Forum: Introductions and connections
- Topic: What is going on in Brazil?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12470
Re: What is going on in Brazil?
I also forgot to mention that, for example, they have FLOSS installed in all state's dependencies and they have an open access policy for publicly founded research (OER).
- 14 Oct 2011, 20:10
- Forum: Introductions and connections
- Topic: What is going on in Brazil?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12470
Re: What is going on in Brazil?
Dan, I'm not from Brasil but I can tell you something about there, since I have travelled there two or three times because of issues involving copyright and stuff. Brazil has the most important free software festival (FISL, which stands for International Festival of Free Software), and also they hav...
- 03 Oct 2011, 21:52
- Forum: Show and Tell / Book Projects
- Topic: Daniel Speaking At Open Hardware Summit 2011 - watch live.
- Replies: 47
- Views: 66224
Re: Daniel Speaking At Open Hardware Summit 2011 - watch liv
Dan, I have heard your talk and I was expecting you'll show there how the new standard book scanner works... but it didn't happen!
Could you make as a short demo video of how it works? I wasn't able to figure it out.
Regards!
scann
Could you make as a short demo video of how it works? I wasn't able to figure it out.
Regards!
scann
- 02 Sep 2011, 02:11
- Forum: Scanners and Build Threads
- Topic: scann's and bond's book scanner
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9295
Re: scann's and bond's book scanner
Fantastic work, and possibly our first Argentinian scanner! I appreciate the very clean, very straightforward build and the effort you've put into photographing and videotaping it. Thanks for joining up! Thank you Daniel! I was wondering if you could give me a user in the wiki, to help organizing a...
- 30 Aug 2011, 13:02
- Forum: Scanners and Build Threads
- Topic: scann's and bond's book scanner
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9295
scann's and bond's book scanner
Hi all, We are from Capital Federal, Argentina, and we have finished our book scanner! http://derechoaleer.org/2011/08/nuestro-do-it-yourself-book-scanner.html Here are some photos: http://derechoaleer.org/images/2011/diy_scanner/diy-1.jpg http://derechoaleer.org/images/2011/diy_scanner/diy-make-5.j...
- 07 Aug 2011, 22:33
- Forum: Scanners and Build Threads
- Topic: Master Index of All Scanner Builds.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 123166
Re: Master Index of All Scanner Builds.
Hi all, I have been searching for models so I made a little list of scanners that I think aren't here. I wanted to make me a user in the wiki but the option "create account" is disabled. So, here's my list: Scanner build - inspired by luxor: http://www.diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.ph...
- 31 Jul 2011, 13:56
- Forum: LiveCD project
- Topic: All threads that mention LiveCD/Linux development
- Replies: 29
- Views: 193185
Re: All threads that mention LiveCD/Linux development
Hi! I don't use Ubuntu, I use debian/squeeze, but maybe I can help with your to-do list. I've been using the following software: gscan2pdf - it helps you with the 'text under image' or to make your PDF searcheable. ocropus, tesseract and gocr for OCR OCRFeeder is also an option, it gives you back OC...