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- Lever should have a button for capture
- Display should be visible while looking down
But now I see why destructive scanning (slicing the binding off and using a sheet feeding scanner) is so attractive. For any non-rare books, this is just too tedious and time consuming to go through for more than a few books.
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I think about Google's scanner project a lot. I wonder if they are still scanning? I would love if they found a way to offer those books (authors would have to agree) to the world. If they did, I would forgive them for tracking me all these years. I'd even put up with ads in the books.
They do if the books are out of copyright, and they're often copied to archive.org (and then transcribed via Wikisource) when this happens. sample: https://books.google.im/books?id=Me8CAAAAQAAJ&printsec=front...
I have most of the entire collection of hardback national geographics from 1930 to 1970. Wonder how legal it would be to scan them. Always wondered.
I have most of the entire collection of hardback national geographics from 1930 to 1970. Wonder how legal it would be to scan them. Always wondered.
Good news: It's very likely that the copyright has expired. If you were to scan them, remember to upload them to archive.org for everyone else to see.
Bad news: It's only the case if the copyright hasn't been renewed by the owner. Usually most owners don't renew them, but to determine whether or not this is the case, you need to go through huge catalogs of registered entries from the U.S. copyright office.
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Back in 2012, there was a guy who started an open source project that did exactly this - he wrote it specifically for the DIY Book scanner. It had a local Django project as the interface. I don't remember the details, but it did a decent job of taking the images, OCR'ing them and creating an output PDF. I believe he abandoned the project some years later as life got busy and he never found enough volunteers to help h…
Not the same as Scan Tailor[1,2] ? Which was referenced from the Instructables link cited earlier. That apparently was a comprehensive toolkit in C++ and Qt, now archived. [1] https://scantailor.org/ [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210304015939/https://github.co...
Nice to provide hardware hints and designs but geez that is almost the least of it. Cleverest hardware still only gets you a thumb drive full of page images. Now what? There needs to be a software workflow ending with a readable book in PDF, EBOOK or MOBI format, and there are many, many choices to be made along that path. Edit: "Finishing a book" is discussed at a very superficial level here: https://vimeo.com/user3…
I have most of the entire collection of hardback national geographics from 1930 to 1970. Wonder how legal it would be to scan them. Always wondered.