DIY Book Scanner

hello!

what is the best DIY (or commercially available, but not too much expensive) book scanner?

thanks!

hello

this scanner is the ultimate solution to book and other document digitizing:
http://spie.org/x15942.xml?ArticleID=x15942
I 've been waiting for it to be out, with no luck till now

what is your opinion?

thanks!

I think VectorMagic was/is a MIT's project?
with whatever that implies...

its about 500 euro + shipping, but they offer a testing period, when you can return it (minus shipping/handling probably) what you mean by glorified webcam? their camera looks interesting and when I was trying to build my own system, I was looking into cameras like that I need to know more about cam...

hello!

any opinion on this?

http://www.scan2docx.com/

thanks!

it does look crappy

however if we could replace the sensors it would become more useful??

isn't this the best?

http://vectormagic.com/home/comparisons

hello

would vectorization of scanned/photographed text, improve OCR results?

hello unfortunately camera scanning, while it seemed good idea, because it is fast and it promised images without distortion, it has poor results, because there are too many factors to consider (proper light, skew distortion, angles, etc) imo the best solution would be a thin scanner that can be pla...