Interesting community and project: diybookscanner.org

Rich,

Will do - Reetz is the author of the Instructables article - he expanded the
ideas from that article into the diybookscanner.org site. The new scanner
design is based on a project Reetz did with the On Demand Book Service,
which is a Canadian first nations-oriented group:
http://meeting.knet.ca/mp19/course/view.php?id=20

Of course, I am as much interested in the software toolchain as the
hardware/carpentry aspects of this. There's a really interesting program
called ScanTailor that they use for post-processing scanned images. It's
available over here: http://scantailor.sourceforge.net/ . People are working
on a Linux-based toolchain for processing the images from the cameras but
the default toolchain is Windows-based at present.

Best,

Ben

On 5/7/10 2:18 PM, "Rich McCue" <rmccue@uvic.ca> wrote:

> Ben,
>
> Please report back on how your project goes. I saw an article on DIY Book
> scanners on the Instructibles website: http://bit.ly/cw9jG6 and have it on my
> summer to do list.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Rich
>
> On 2010-05-07, at 10:43 AM, Chapman, Ben wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Combine carpentry and technology and what do you get?
>>
>> http://diybookscanner.org/ is the home of a community devoted to the
>> creation of book scanners built around digital cameras. Daniel Reetz is the
>> founder and chief instigator and is doing some really fascinating things.
>> I'm in the process of building a book scanner based on the "New Standard
>> Book Scanner" detailed here in their forums:
>>
>> http://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=333
>>
>> Anyway, Joan's request for recommendations on cameras reminded me to mention
>> this project. They've got strong opinions on cameras and seem to prefer the
>> Canons for their hackability.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
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