Book Scanner

[Benjamin Blundell]

Hi all. Does anyone have a really good book scanner? Preferably an auto-flipping, two camera affair at all? If not does anyone have any plans or experience in making one? I've loads and loads of technical books I need to convert to digital format (and then donate! Stuff like GPU Pro5 and other gems!) . Theres a lot to go through so streamlining the process as much as possible is best.

Cheers

Ben

[Domas]

Auto-flipping scanners are really expensive and I haven't seen any good DIY ones. The closest best thing for auto-flipping scanner might be this from Google Books project, but only for books you don't mind a teared page or two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JuoOaL11bw https://linearbookscanner.org/

All the information you could need about book scanning here: http://www.diybookscanner.org/

[Benjamin Blundell]

awesome! Cheers! I think I'd be ok flipping the pages myself so If I can get the right framing and some handy software, its just a stand, set of lights and a couple of good webcams mounted correctly. Should be doable :)

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[deanforbes]

Oni - this may be useful - http://scantailor.org/

[Benjamin Blundell]

Oh that is interesting. Thanks. I can see a lot of laster cutting and frame-making in my near future :D

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