some general beginner questions
Posted: 30 Aug 2011, 21:26
Hi Forum!
Very cool site and a very useful idea too. I'm swedish so forgive my english:
I'm interested in building a scanner to scan books in general, but also more specifically, university course litterature. I'm wondering what type of format it all comes out in. Do you scan it and then run it through software that extracts the information to put in a _text_ document or do you create it like a pdf with "pictures" in it? I'm thinking that this whole process works best with with white pages and black text. Alot of university litterature (like economics for example) have alot of design features in the books. Colours, colums, graphs etc - is this usable too? As you can see I don't know anything about these fileformats.
There is alot of info about the scanners here naturally. I'm also a bit curious about what type of e-readers that can be used? There has been lots of critique against most e-book readers because of the limited amount of formats they support. This is of course connected to the idea of buying the books from Amazon and similar stores and limiting the users to those particular closed formats. Is it any special type of e-reader that I need to do the whole DIY-scanner thing?
Thank alot!
Very cool site and a very useful idea too. I'm swedish so forgive my english:
I'm interested in building a scanner to scan books in general, but also more specifically, university course litterature. I'm wondering what type of format it all comes out in. Do you scan it and then run it through software that extracts the information to put in a _text_ document or do you create it like a pdf with "pictures" in it? I'm thinking that this whole process works best with with white pages and black text. Alot of university litterature (like economics for example) have alot of design features in the books. Colours, colums, graphs etc - is this usable too? As you can see I don't know anything about these fileformats.
There is alot of info about the scanners here naturally. I'm also a bit curious about what type of e-readers that can be used? There has been lots of critique against most e-book readers because of the limited amount of formats they support. This is of course connected to the idea of buying the books from Amazon and similar stores and limiting the users to those particular closed formats. Is it any special type of e-reader that I need to do the whole DIY-scanner thing?
Thank alot!