Quote:
Originally Posted by harryE123
Hey ya all. I had come across a piece of software a year, or maybe a couple of years back, that was advertised that when used with a digital camera (in a black background) it would make digitizing books easier by way of straigtening out fonts and pages that might appear curved due to the photograph of the original curved book. I have since then not been able to relocate it, and I really can't remember its name since it was rather cumbersome and counterintuitive to remember. If it rings a bell to anyone, it was even linked from these forums and there possibly was a thread about it....If it doesn't ring a bell, would you suggest any alternatives, I am not talking about ocr software per se, just something that would take a scanned or preferable a photographed version of a page and straigthen it out and perform all these cosmetic alterations as to render it as readable as possible on an ebook device. Thanks. Har.  |
Have you thought of simply creating a posterboard/fibreboard 'cradle' and getting a piece of plexiglass to hold the pages down? I've seen several plans for 'cradles' which hold the spine of the book to be photographed in the central 'valley' and then the plexiglass (you might want one for each side) holds the page flat - get a couple of really *cheap* 6-8MP point-and-shoot digital cameras that have "macro" autofocusing and set them up on a couple of cheap table-top tripods and you're good to go - no curved pages, no text wavering in and out of focus. (Of course, you'd probably do just as good with a Plustek Opticbook scanner and those can be had for under $300 on ebay.)
Derek