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Originally Posted by chorpler
I noticed that -- is the "large" image the actual output from the camera? The letters are significantly smaller than a 300dpi scan, but FineReader 9 actually recognized your "large" pages from Free Culture with 100% accuracy -- it had about 10 questionable characters, but they were all correct. So maybe my scans don't need to be nearly as big as I thought. (Although FineReader did pop up a little message saying "Increase scan resolution for better accuracy with small characters." But its concerns were unwarranted since it still recognized everything on your page just fine.)
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No, the image size is compressed by flickr. With a free flickr account you can't offer people the ability to download images in their original size. If you want the full images, grab them from here:
http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=download
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Yes, I noticed in the thread you linked to above, about cameras, that an SLR camera with a 2/3" sensor would be much better than a regular $100 digital camera, regardless of megapixel rating. But since none of us want to pay out $1000 for a couple of used SLR digitals, we'll have to see what kind of cheap consumer digital cameras work best. 
Oh, and another question: I notice in your video that the book is sitting on a V-shaped cradle. Is that one of the "do it yourself repro V cradles" that ereszet talked about in the thread you linked to? How much did that cost you to build?
Until I saw that video, I was mentally picturing the bookripper device as working the opposite way, with the book lying on top of the plexiglass and the cameras angled up at it. I wonder if such a system would work... or if you really need the weight of the device to hold the book's pages still.
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Yeah, we all live with what we have
I actually built my v-cradle before I ran into the information here, so it is a little rougher than
ereszet's. I just made it from some scrap wood and a lot of angle braces from the hardware store, so it was just a few dollars to build. I've been planning some different designs but it works pretty well as is.
You are not alone in thinking about a device where the book is on top, I talked to a couple of other people while coming up with this design and they also thought about flipping it upside down. Turns out there are a number of issues ranging from the book sliding off to being unable to reach the cameras, but it might be a good idea for a pre-manufactured device, like a scanner.