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[ivop]

Book of the day! Number four.

http://www.4shared.c..._On_The_At.html

[Fox-1 / mnx]

What do you have at hand to be able to scan a whole book a day?

Every day! :-)

[ivop]

Fox-1 / mnx, on Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:41 AM, said:

What do you have at hand to be able to scan a whole book a day?

Every day! :-)

I have built my own book scanner I can scan between 150-200 pages in ten minutes. After that, it takes about ten minutes to determine a few parameters for batch processing. I wrote a few scripts to automate post-processing. The end result is a pdf file. All in all it takes around half an hour of manual labor (preparations, scanning) and the rest is automated.

Edited by ivop, Sat Nov 19, 2011 6:01 AM.

[Fox-1 / mnx]

ivop, on Sat Nov 19, 2011 6:00 AM, said:

I have built my own book scanner I can scan between 150-200 pages in ten minutes.

That sounds like something useful. Are you really scanning (mechanically) or is it using a camera-like device?

[ivop]

Fox-1 / mnx, on Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:05 PM, said:

That sounds like something useful. Are you really scanning (mechanically) or is it using a camera-like device?

It uses a 10MP DSLR camera. See http://diybookscanner.org/ for examples of such beasts. Presumably, ION is releasing a commercial book scanner at a reasonable price soon (~150 USD).