Camera mounts for the DIY Book Scanner...

Built a scanner? Started to build a scanner? Record your progress here. Doesn't need to be a whole scanner - triggers and other parts are fine. Commercial scanners are fine too.

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daniel_reetz
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Re: Camera mounts for the DIY Book Scanner...

Post by daniel_reetz »

Wow, that's interesting. I use the Canon LIDE scanners and they definitely work. I hadn't thought about X-Y resolution being different.
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Re: Camera mounts for the DIY Book Scanner...

Post by rkomar »

Aw crap! To prove my point, I scanned a ruler in both directions, and carefully calculated the resolution in the images in both directions. They both came out to 600 dpi. Yet, when I display a scanned PDF book on the monitor and hold the real book beside it, I can see that the text looks compressed horizontally. I guess there's something else going on in the conversion process. Anyway, I was wrong about the X-Y resolution being markedly different on my model of scanner. Sorry.
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