Re: Syndicomm Scam

[Jerry <awanderin@gmail.com>]

gids.rs@sasktel.net writes:

>> Google made a nice system for scanning books, instead of the book lying flat, it's sitting on the scanner like the tip of a pointy roof, or like the top of snoopys dog house.  Of course, you'd have to build a scanner for that, lol.  =)
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>> http://hackaday.com/2012/11/16/google-books-team-open-sources-their-book-scanner/
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> What I don't get is why people are still using scanners at all.  I just use my digital camera that saves as a jpeg.  Way faster.  Way simpler.  It can still be OCR'd once the pictures are transfered to the computer.
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> The book doesn't even have to be opened all the way.  A 90 degree angle is sufficient.
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> You can even take the picture parallel to the book, and rotate the picture 90 degrees on the computer.  The text and pictures still comes out perfect.

Or build your own book scanner.  I made my own, but I took lots of ideas
from http://diybookscanner.org/

There are lots of folks doing this.  The quality with a couple 10 MP+
cameras is excellent.


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