DIY Book Scanner

How about adding some checker board squares of known size (e.g., 1 inch, 1 cm) or rulers so the standard could be used to help determine DPI as well. As for size... I would keep it to the area of a 6 x 9 book (or some other "smaller" book), but it could then be centered on larger sheets of...

Just an FYI on something I saw today. There is a new Kickstarter project that hopes to produce a DIY CNC milling system for under $400. I'm not sure if this thing will really happen, and they are taking a different approach by asking for donations up front, but I like the concept of an inexpensive D...

Are you enclosing your directory name in quotes? E.g., -d "F:\Book Scanner\Book\Work" instead of -d F:\Book Scanner\Book Work

yes I am.

Misty, I'm having a small issue with PDFMaker 0.2. I'm running it under windows and have spaces in one of my directory names. I have the -d directory quoted when starting PDFMaker 0.2. The error is "Magick: unable to open image 'Scanner\Book\Work....' " which starts just where the space is...

Thanks everyone for the kind words. ... those camera arms... Do they work with a wide range of book sizes? Yes, they cover pretty much books up to the full width of the cradle. I did some quick back-of-the-envelope calculations that said I needed to be able to adjust about 3.5 inches to cover books ...

So I finished my first scanner build and have been using it for a couple of weekends now. So I wanted to give back to everyone on some things I learned. As you can see, this is mostly a "New Standard" scanner build. The #1 design objective was that I needed it to break down easily and not ...