DIY Book Scanner

daniel_reetz wrote:...pay people to stand in front of the machines to make sure they don't destroy books.

I agree, thats the biggest problem ("Can I leave it alone ?")

By the end of the year there is the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) in Berlin, as every year (see also wp ). They offer lightning talk slots (4 minutes max.) and I thought it's a great chance to spread the word about the project and the community to all the creative and nerdy people there. ...

It looks great and it's a nice summary of the efforts everyone put in her/his own project, I like it ! It also shows that there is not _the_ sophisticated book scanner but keeps a low profile for the start which encourages people to participate, hopefully

If this middle camera were IR sensitive, you could have an invisible pattern on the page. But that's into the Google digitizer patent territory. yep, that's my favorite approach, but it's slightly challenging (hardware ...) afaik, you're allowed to rebuild/construct/implement technologies covered b...

I'm wonder if it wouldn't just be easier to have FOUR cameras instead of two, and use stereoscopic imaging. Two cameras per page means that the three dimensional profile of each page can be captured, meaning that errors due to a non-flat page could be eliminated very easily. It still wouldn't solve...

just for contribution and reference. This is my setup which I built last weekend while I browsed the net and found this site. It took me two afternoons and some styrofoam packaging leftovers (ikea ;) ). Pro: easy to work with and very fast. Con: low stiffness, thats why there are some threads requir...

some time ago, I did research the page flipping problem on youtube too. Here are more examples in continuation of qwers post: with rubber and fan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSwlZOeuNk mechanical rubber finger only: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXnQi1fijpM slow-motion vacuum: http://www.youtu...

It's an interesting setup, I like it, a simple but clever construction with few easy-to-get parts, I'm kind of envious regarding the plexiglass: I assume it's much more scratch resistant than the ordinary handicrafting oriented acrylic/pvc from local hardware stores ? Also, the rotation mechanism fo...

You don't want the LaTeX code to track minor changes in font size and effects caused by inaccuracies of the input image. Ok, that's true, but I assume this is already fixed by the image (pre-)processing which is supposed to determine and learn the position of lines, page margins and know about the ...

Hi everyone, from time to time some thoughts come across my mind, what the ideal software for the ocr problem would be: On the software side, also full automation should be desired but in an all-in-one package with the open-source stamp on it. When ocring documents today, it's suboptimal to include ...