College student wants to build automatic scanner
Posted: 13 Feb 2017, 13:18
What can I do to make a book scanner that meets the following requirements? Do I need extra software to do this? Can I do this with cheap/free software?
I'd like to be able to AUTOMATICALLY scan large books (greater than 8.5 in x 11 in) that have color pictures.
I'd like it to be as cheap as possible. Please include a cost estimate, as I have no idea about things like that.
I'd like to be able to have OCR for the following languages:
Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Chinese (traditional & simplified), Korean, Japanese, French, German, and Spanish
Preferably, it should include rarer and ancient languages like Latin, Manx, etc..
It should be able to recognize accents and other stuff (ESPECIALLY IPA) or things over letters when it comes to things like scanning dictionaries.
I'd like to make the scans look like ebooks you buy from Amazon (white background, not yellow, and clear & sharp black text)
I do NOT want to have the books destroyed. I need to keep a physical form.
I'd like the post-scanning stuff (color-fixing, aligning) to take as little time as possible.
I'd like the final result to have a small file size.
I'd like to be able to hire someone to build this stuff for me, so there should be plans/prints. There's a local engineering school near me (Palm Beach Gdns, FL, U.S.A) so I could hire cheap students.
Thank you! I have no idea what to do. I try reading some people's posts and I just go... " I knew I was never meant for engineering..." And that's probably true. I'm going into folklore and mythology studies/entrepreneurship this year as a freshman in college. Tons and tons of those books do not have e-book formats and one of my encyclopedias of Celtic folklore is falling apart. Ugh.
I'd like to be able to AUTOMATICALLY scan large books (greater than 8.5 in x 11 in) that have color pictures.
I'd like it to be as cheap as possible. Please include a cost estimate, as I have no idea about things like that.
I'd like to be able to have OCR for the following languages:
Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Chinese (traditional & simplified), Korean, Japanese, French, German, and Spanish
Preferably, it should include rarer and ancient languages like Latin, Manx, etc..
It should be able to recognize accents and other stuff (ESPECIALLY IPA) or things over letters when it comes to things like scanning dictionaries.
I'd like to make the scans look like ebooks you buy from Amazon (white background, not yellow, and clear & sharp black text)
I do NOT want to have the books destroyed. I need to keep a physical form.
I'd like the post-scanning stuff (color-fixing, aligning) to take as little time as possible.
I'd like the final result to have a small file size.
I'd like to be able to hire someone to build this stuff for me, so there should be plans/prints. There's a local engineering school near me (Palm Beach Gdns, FL, U.S.A) so I could hire cheap students.
Thank you! I have no idea what to do. I try reading some people's posts and I just go... " I knew I was never meant for engineering..." And that's probably true. I'm going into folklore and mythology studies/entrepreneurship this year as a freshman in college. Tons and tons of those books do not have e-book formats and one of my encyclopedias of Celtic folklore is falling apart. Ugh.