Yes, I like this idea Steve. I don't think I could totally automate it- I
would be fine with hand turning
pages, as long as I could automate the glass lifting and cameras, perhaps
with a delay after the glass
movement goes past a limit switch and stops moving for a certain time
period, to simulate the glass
going up, turning the pages, and then coming down to rest on new pages.
My biggest concern is image quality and focus. Unless I had realtime
preview of image quality, it would
be a nightmare to have to go back and redo specific pages. Some kind of
software that shifts the
pages to be truly flat might be helpful too, to get rid of the inevitable
distortions at the spine.
I guess this might be something an arduino could control, after I learn the
sensors and motors stuff...
-Andrew
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Steven Owens <stevenjowens@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Andrew C. <soshumasamune@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
As such, been interested in making a book scanner for many, many years, aand 2 digital
decade or more.
Anyone at Hack ever make one? The best I've found over the years was a
purpose built fame of 80-20, museum glass to cover & weight the pages,
cameras.spines
This would take FOREVER though.
I know destructive scanning exists, but not interested in having the
ripped out of my rare books.something I
Anyone have any ideas/sugguestions? Not an immeadiate need, but
would like to do eventually- before library gets too big. I think atseveral hundred
books, I'm getting there...
I think the hard part to automate would be the page turning. I've
seen video of gadgets that use suction cups on arms, etc, to turn
pages.
I think if I were going to build one, a happy medium would be to
automate the glass, camera and lighting, but leave the page turning
manual. E.g. you might have a frame that guides the glass down on the
spread-open book to keep it flat for the photo, and have little motors
that pull the glass back up in between shots.
You just sit there reading something (another book, a web browser) and
reach over, flip to the next page and hold it open while the glass
descends down again. Pull your hand away and it takes another photo,
the glass rises up again, you turn the next page... etc.
Slower than you might like, but better than doing it manually.
Steve
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