DIY Book Scanner

There are other possibilities, like pooling our resources, building a king-hell book scanner, and shipping it around to digitize all our libraries. I've often thought that we, as a community, could pool our workshops and make all the parts for scanners super-cheap, and sell them to each other. Spea...

What is the cost of the drawer slides used for platen glass lifting/dropping?

The reason I ask is related to the method of lifting and dropping the platen onto the book. Beta uses linear bearings made from two PVCs, one inside the other. This is crazy inexpensive!

Good stuff so far! I'll use this page to ask questions to the entire forum.

I'm waiting for a class right now, so I couldn't read the text; just browsed them images. Great job! That's what I call documenting the building process!

Why do we have to be in the preparations of this stuff, when all of a sudden our buzz is killed in realization that Japan already has it.

Tori, your timing couldn't be any better. Welcome! I'm producing a next-generation scanner hardware tutorial . The idea is to bring some of the better hardware ideas from the forum into a concrete form usable by people who haven't read every.last.post. As far as your points about the forum and docu...

Hi guys, I'm Tori. I am currently a Computer Science and Mathematics undergraduate at Missouri S&T, and I am also an (inactive) developer of the ScanTailor project. I haven't done anything for the software yet; I'm still familiarizing myself with the source code to date. I'm also working on a pr...

Hi all, My name is Mark, but I usually go by my online username koulevprime. I am a Computer Science and Mathematics student at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. I am also a photographer for my school's yearbook, and I have the mandatory privilege of scanning old Yearbooks and digit...