DIY Book Scanner

Thanks Tulon and Spamsickle for your work! Building on Spamsickle's post above (http://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=466#p4244), here are step-by-step instructions to effectively "override" the Select Content GUI option, thus manually setting each page's content area ide...

Whoo hoo! I built a New Standard Scanner last weekend! Unfortunately, my images are skewed/titled so that, when reading them (despite post-processing with Scantailor and ABBYY), the left and right pages nevertheless appear with the "star wars" text effect, skewing them clearly to the left ...

Regarding MutantStrain's post above (http://www.diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=333&start=80#p3894), could anyone provide an image or explanation for an electronics novice? He wrote, "So in summary Ricoh red --> Motorola red. Ricoh black --> motorola shielding. Thats it.&qu...

After spending several hours reading various workflow posts on this forum, I'm looking for the most efficient workflow available today, regardless of software licensing preference (open vs. closed) and assuming acceptable final output. Any suggestions or corrections on the following proposed steps? ...

Another option, which worked me albeit in Windows, is to rename the files like this: left side (1,3,5,7,...) and right side (2,4,6,8,10) using a free, Creative Commons 3.0 software like http://www.den4b.com/downloads.php?project=ReNamer. ABBYY, Acrobat, and (probably) Omnipage will import based on f...

It turns out that Daniel was hoping the Motorola Y splitter would work with the CA-1 without splicing and soldering (he wrote as much in an earlier post, sorry I don't have it available) instead of the Alltel device (mentioned above), but in fact, later posts suggest that *only* the Alltel device wo...