DIY Book Scanner

I am absolutely jealous of you

congratulations, I like your style and I will plan to do it, looking forward to see more photos

I have been thinking for a while on a portable diy book scanner. Last night I have found an idea. In Turkey people use a wooden stand for reading books etc called "rahle" a kind of lectern (I dont know exact translation). I have uploaded pictures below. It is simple and portable and can be...

I have met same dilemma. I have used two OCR program; ABBYY Finereader and Adobe Acrobat X (with built-in OCR as you said) for my scanned books. Two of the programs have good result both in English and also my language Turkish. Quality of OCR depends on the several factors especially quality of imag...

I have Bargain Price Book Scanner From A Cardboard Box from the web site ( http://www.instructables.com/id/Bargain-Price-Book-Scanner-From-A-Cardboard-Box/ ). I have covered cardboard box with black gift paper in order to have uniform light. I have use camera Nikon Coolpix 5600 (5MP). I have obtain ...

Thank you. I am happy to be first person form Turkey :D . I appreciate your efforts for diy_scanners. It is very hard to find some parts or sometimes expensive in Turkey. I have now the model Bargain Price Book Scanner From A Cardboard Box and have good results. But I need more practical design. I l...

looking forward to see

Hi from Turkey. I think I am the only one from Turkey or ? If any one, I would like to contact him/her. Congratulations for the web site and everthning. I am going to build my scanner and may post some experience here. I have a lot of books to scan. Bye for now ...