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Originally Posted by ghostyjack
I know that it captures an image of the page and that this is just a mounting system. I was just hoping that someone who has performed a DIY book scan might be able to tell me if the images it captures from within the book (i.e. maps, etc, not the text) useing similar techniques might be of good enough quality to include after I've OCR'ed the text.
I've never had any experience using a digital camera to try and photograph pictures within a book before - seeing as the only digital camera I own in in my phone, and I would not use that for capturing any fine detail from a page.
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Sure - it works fine. I've taken my own photographs for the illustrations in some of the books I've uploaded to the MR library. The key thing is to have good, even, lighting of the page. I find that direct daylight works best.