DIY Book Scanner

My wife came home after a recent back surgery with this walker. Her recovery is going well and so, praise the Lord she doesn't need it anymore. I attached a shop lamp, and two bike mounts conveniently hold the two Cannon PowerShot Ellph 180 cameras in place. AC adapters power the cameras and USB cab...

Can Spreads run on a Raspberry Pi 4? If so, I may need a little help. I am wanting to build me a book scanner. I bought a Raspberry Pi 4. I went ahead and got the 8GB version in a CanaKit that comes with cables, case, the OS already pre-installed on a microSD card... the whole works. I plugged it al...

I am looking at building my first DIY Book Scanner rig. I'm considering a WiFi enabled camera like the Canon PowerShot SX720 HS . https://amzn.to/2PTKdU9 What do y'all think? Has anyone tried that? It would be nice to control it remotely and not have to mess with USB cables, transferring images with...

I have a commercial overhead book scanning camera. It works pretty well, but the weakness is that it is hard to hold the pages flat. And I don't like my fingers in the shots. I am considering building some sort of flat platen that could hold the pages down better, and still use my single camera stan...

Thanks Jonathon. That is very helpful.

I think I will probably end up building a DIY scanner. My set up does relativly well, but I think I might could get better results with something like y'all are doing here. And plus, it looks very fun.

I am new here and I love what y'all are doing. I am legally blind and have been scanning books for over 25 years. I OCR them and run them through voice synthesis, so I can read them. In the old days I used a flat bed scanner. I now use a product by Freedom Scientific, which is a camera mounted on a ...