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Originally Posted by chorpler
I can't quite tell from the pictures (I haven't read any of the instructions yet), but could you make a smaller device for paperbacks and just attach the same cameras that the big version uses?
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Is that a lot of what you have to digitize?
It should be possible to use the same cameras, though it will depend a bit on the camera's field of focus. One of the advantages of using webcams is that they expect things to be really close, you you can put things very close to them and they still cover a wide area. Cameras, even if they can focus on objects very close up, still tend to expect things to be somewhat farther away, so the amount of area that they cover for close to the lens shots is much smaller. I just did some quick testing with my cameras and you could cut 3" off either end while leaving yourself an ~7"x6.25" shooting area. That is plenty for the paperbacks I have, but your collection may vary.
I haven't actually built one that small before but it should be possible to just get 2" bolts for the camera mount part and keep everything else pretty much the same.
If you've got some scanning to do, I'd be happy to help you get all the right parts.