tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33709192.post2147195474778002691..comments2023-08-17T08:35:54.112-07:00Comments on Space Age Librarian: BookSnap Personal Book DigitizerRoger Hileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08599253203086476508noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33709192.post-90456578425407306272010-08-10T07:28:59.717-07:002010-08-10T07:28:59.717-07:00Sorry - should have included some links on the abo...Sorry - should have included some links on the above comment.<br /><br />Here is a ton of photos of DIY scanners people have built, and a link to plans for building your own:<br /><br />http://diybookscanner.org/<br /><br />Here's a good profile of the guy who helped start this movement:<br /><br />http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/diy-book-scanner/Kevin T. Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06252444671224916804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33709192.post-82343910358812996112010-08-10T07:23:26.549-07:002010-08-10T07:23:26.549-07:00There is a growing movement of people doing this w...There is a growing movement of people doing this with home-built equipment. I strongly suspect this product is just a commercialized version of one of the many DIY scanner designs that are available.<br /><br />The unit is simply a platform that holds the book pages open at a 90-degree angle, and two ordinary digital cameras, also mounted at a 90-degree angle, to shoot perpendicularly at the two pages. Software automatically downloads the two shots and combines them into a sequence of images of right- and left-hand pages. You typically have to turn the pages of the book manually for each new shot. Open-source software to do this is available, and plans for building a framework for the book and the camera mounts are also available, although the setup is pretty intuitive. How much it costs to DIY this device depends on how nice you want it to look, and what price you can get on two decent-resolution off-the-shelf digicams. I'm glad to see this technology moving mainstream, but $1600 is outrageous.Kevin T. Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06252444671224916804noreply@blogger.com