DIY Book Scanner

Hey beenherebefore, I just want to say thank you for taking the time to show up here and generously offer up your old kit. That's awesome.

Edit: after viewing the post it seems that all the mechanical changes are pretty well outlined in the post.

CZUR has had a lot of spamming activity here on the forum over the years, so for our legitimate users, please keep links to CZUR stuff to a minimum. Still, it's worth discussing from time to time. It's also worth discussing how the various of technologies (laser straightening etc) were at one time a...

JasonStonier wrote: ↑16 Nov 2021, 08:21 Only problem with it is it's very slow - about 20 mins per magasine, so I'm working on a Gen-2 version which uses a Czur Shine overhead scanner and I hope to get the workflow down to about 10 minutes per magasine.

Another way to solve this problem is to build 2 copies

This is really cool!

It really hits on one of my favorite concepts, which is that if a bookscanner can be made totally automated, it can go slowly - possibly very slowly - and still be really useful.

The sort of flattening/ironing concept you have is also really cool.

Hey Folks, I'm Daniel, and I founded this site and project back in 2009 with a little help from my friends. I just want to say hello to everyone here, and to let folks know that I'm going to be dropping by a little more often for the foreseeable future, probably once a week or so. I won't resume sel...

I personally do the same as camwow - I try to match the camera to what I see with my eyes. There are many different ways to capture books - many different intentions - but for me a copy of the book as-i-found-it, or as-i-marked-it-up - that's the digital book I want.

Wow. Extensive and very thoughtful, with lots of great illustrations. Thank you.

Right. Very interesting, John. At the end of the day "The Cloud" just means "somebody else's computer". I don't trust the cloud at all. Companies and services come and go. And who knows what happens to all those computers that somebody else once owned? In the olden days, when I w...

What worries me is storage, reliability, and accessibility of the electronic copy. There's a notion in the digitizing community: LOCKSS ("Lots of copies keeps stuff safe"). Libraries like John's are precious and should definitely be backed up in several places. I know mine will be backed ...