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From: BillGill <tonisdad215@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: hobby electronics
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On 7/6/2024 12:28 PM, Don Y wrote:
> Yes -- definitely true of "pocket books".  Do you have
> to take care in positioning the book to ensure it is in the
> cameras' focused field?  I.e., the scanner approach automatically
> crops the image to the actual page size so you just load pages
> and wait -- to load MORE pages.

I am using my own KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) scanner, which
I designed myself.  I originally called it a Tower Scanner, but
changed the name when I realized that I had made it as simple
as possible.

I posted a description of it on DIY Book Scanner, at:
https://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=22274&hilit=tower+scanner#p22274

As you can see I have a mirror in the base of the scanner
that I used to verify that the page is correctly placed.  It
doesn't zoom in to fit the page, it just overscans.

I don't do much manipulation of the images before I OCR them.
I use Abby Finereader 14 which does a pretty good job of
picking out the text.  I stick with 14 because it works good
and newer versions are only available as subscriptions.

Understand that I am making ebooks that I can carry around on
different devises, not PDFs that can also be viewed on different
devices, but don't necessarily have all the text correct.

And I don't digitize technical books.  They are a whole different
proposition, with lots of finicky illustrations.  Not something
that I would like to try to digitize.

Also I don't want to destroy my paper books.  I like reading
books on paper. After all that is how I grew up.

Bill