DIY Book Scanner

Make your f-stop higher or increase the shutter speed, as your picture is way too bright. The larger the f-stop, the smaller the aperture and the less light gets into the camera. Also, angle your lights so that they aren't visible in the reflections. As for the noise, that cyan/blue looks like a col...

I can't find any place to store the ISO (I'm out of space in my Dropbox account as well) and most file sharing sites have a 200mb limit, so I'll keep looking. Meanwhile, just a quick update: Automatic login to desktop Shortcuts for Scan Tailor, Firefox, Bindery and Terminal Support for most network ...

If you want to use gphoto2, there's gtkam. It's a GTK2 frontend for gphoto2 and provides you a live preview window.

It works only on Linux and Mac, and I can confirm it works with my Canon T2i on Linux.

Most people do capturing via the cameras themselves. If you have a CHDK-capable camera (most of the Canon PowerShot models), then you can create a trigger using a spliced USB cord and a trigger. If you have a D-SLR camera, you can use the trigger port avaliable in the camera itself. Again, Canon has...

Sorry, my bad. I didn't realize you were using Clang. I tried it with Clang 3.0 and got the same errors.

Tulon, is it a problem to change those matrix class properties from Private to Public in the source code?

Scan Tailor compiled 100% fine for me yesterday, but I'm using GCC 4.6.2 on Linux. What compiler were you using?

I started a build right now. I'm bundling these scanning-related programs: Scan Tailor (git) djvubind (hg) pdfbeads (1.0.3) Bindery (git) Tesseract (svn) Cuneiform (1.1.0) ImageMagick (6.7.5.3) Aside from that, the distro has: Firefox Thunderbird Evince (Ubuntu packages it as well. It reads PDF, DjV...

Is there any interest in using a LiveCD anymore?

The Wiki is still affected. I haven't found any recent phpBB exploits, but DreamHost was hacked about a month ago.

We might have different understandings of the word "negate", but ImageMagick can handle all of those cases: convert black-white.png -negate white-black.png convert upside-down.png -rotate 180 rightside-up.png convert upside-down.png -flip rightside-up.png Making this work automatically would be a pa...