DIY Book Scanner

Rob,

This looks great. Are you planning on adding this to Scan Tailor?

- Ed

There are 3 things in general when looking at a digital camera: - The optics - how many megapixels - the size of the sensor I'm using an 8mp camera, and I'm happy with the results. For what we're doing here, point & shoot cameras have adequate optics, so that's not an issue. For the sensor size,...

Why not just do it from the command line? mkdir work ; export seq=1 ; for file in `ls *.tif | sort -nr` ; do mv $file work/$seq.tiff ; export seq=`expr $seq + 1` ; done That will make a new directory called work, and move all the files in the working directory to `work`, in reverse order numbered fr...

It's an Intel mac. I'll put together some samples and send you a link. One thing I'm doing as a test is rebuilding with QT from trolltech, and not through the ports. You may find this interesting: -- Looking for Q_WS_X11 -- Looking for Q_WS_X11 - not found. -- Looking for Q_WS_WIN -- Looking for Q_W...

I am actually surprised you've managed to build it on a Mac. Is Qt in darwinports the native one, or the X11 one? If it's the former, I would expect you to hit problems with my direct calls to XRender, which is probably not available on Mac. If it's the latter, well - that kind of configuration is ...

Hi Tulon, welcome! Earlier today I compiled scantailor on my Mac, and I've been using it to process a book that I've scanned. One thing that's a bit different with the way we scan books here is that we're using cameras to shoot the page, and that gives output that's a bit different from using a flat...

Thanks Rob, I'll try that out. Hopefully, I'll be able to get fink & darwinports to play nice together....

Rob,

How did you deal with QT? Did you use fink, or did you compile it yourself? I've been having problems getting fink to install it. Also, did you use qt3 or qt4?

Hi everyone, My name is Ed, and I'm planning on building a book scanner. I already bade a base for one, with a camera mounted on one side. I've scanned a few books on it already, mostly as a proof of concept. I'm using a Kodak 8.1 mega pixel camera (C813), and I'm experimenting with a few camera set...