My first book scanning
Posted: 15 Dec 2015, 05:12
I wanted to scan books by myself for a long time...but I don't have budget to buy a scanner, although I have a mobile with 10+M-pixel camera... Last week I by chance visited this great site and knew the great free software called "Scan Tailor"...so my first e-book was born
A very simple and yet effective "hardware" setup, using a stand I already have: I by chance have a suitable rubber to put there, for preventing the mobile to slip: and that's it, rock and roll: Well, I use voice control to take pictures so I don't need to touch the mobile so I don't need to fix it with the stand.
I took pictures of odd pages first and then even pages. Each picture is named as IMG_yyyymmdd_hhmmss.jpg in time order, so I need to rename those to page order. I simply collect all those file names, forms as an array in javascript, and put some simple script in a browser to generate a bunch of rename command lines...simple, stupid, and effective so far.
With tiff files generated by ST, I used TIFF2PDF to convert each tiff into a single PDF, and then use pdflatex and pdfpages package (came with texlive) to combine all single-page PDFs into a e-book!
My next step is to make the PDF searchable and embedded with TOC, and I am planning to use OCRmyPDF and pdftk for these two tasks...
Btw, creating e-book is one half of my goals, the other part is to print and bind the books to fit my personal needs, because I mainly read real books, not e-books.
thank you all for the great forum/software/ideas,
/bruin
A very simple and yet effective "hardware" setup, using a stand I already have: I by chance have a suitable rubber to put there, for preventing the mobile to slip: and that's it, rock and roll: Well, I use voice control to take pictures so I don't need to touch the mobile so I don't need to fix it with the stand.
I took pictures of odd pages first and then even pages. Each picture is named as IMG_yyyymmdd_hhmmss.jpg in time order, so I need to rename those to page order. I simply collect all those file names, forms as an array in javascript, and put some simple script in a browser to generate a bunch of rename command lines...simple, stupid, and effective so far.
With tiff files generated by ST, I used TIFF2PDF to convert each tiff into a single PDF, and then use pdflatex and pdfpages package (came with texlive) to combine all single-page PDFs into a e-book!
My next step is to make the PDF searchable and embedded with TOC, and I am planning to use OCRmyPDF and pdftk for these two tasks...
Btw, creating e-book is one half of my goals, the other part is to print and bind the books to fit my personal needs, because I mainly read real books, not e-books.
thank you all for the great forum/software/ideas,
/bruin