Re: hobby electronics

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