Daniel Reetz, the founder of the DIY Book Scanner community, has recently started making videos of prototyping and shop tips. If you are tinkering with a book scanner (or any other project) in your home shop, these tips will come in handy.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn0gq8 ... g_8K1nfInQ
Discussions, questions, comments, ideas, and your projects having to do with DIY Book Scanner software. This includes the Stereo Data Maker software for the cameras, post-processing software, utilities, OCR packages, and so on.
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ibr4him
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by ibr4him » 16 Jul 2011, 14:51
I ran the commands in terminal as Misty explained in another post, but I can't run PDFbeads yet:
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mbpro:~ ibrahim$ pdfbeads /Users/ibrahim/Pictures/LEFT-16_07_2011-100/Karbala/Original pdf.pdf
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- RMagick (LoadError)
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/pdfbeads-1.0.3/lib/pdfbeads.rb:36
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/pdfbeads-1.0.3/bin/pdfbeads:38
from /usr/bin/pdfbeads:19:in `load'
from /usr/bin/pdfbeads:19
mbpro:~ ibrahim$
Many thanks for your help!
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Misty
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by Misty » 17 Jul 2011, 01:35
PDFBeads doesn't track its dependencies in Rubygems (Alexey, you should do that

), so it didn't install the other gems you need for it to work. In addition to PDFBeads itself, you also need rmagick and hpricot. Go ahead and install those the same way you installed PDFBeads itself.
You will need to have Imagemagick installed for it to work. If you don't, I would recommend using a package manager like
Homebrew or Macports. With Homebrew, you can install Imagemagick by typing
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ibr4him
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by ibr4him » 17 Jul 2011, 02:53
I think I already have it installed:
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Warning: Formula already installed: imagemagick
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Misty
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by Misty » 17 Jul 2011, 12:10
That's fine, then. Just go ahead and install rmagick and hpricot using Rubygems, by doing
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