Message-ID: <64065ef5@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Dumb Pinter Question Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <9FKdnSx-aYhJ5pz5nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <-MKdnaGEcp-jap75nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <17ydnXi6-MG65Zj5nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@earthlink.com> <6405822a@news.ausics.net> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 7 Mar 2023 07:45:26 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://www.ausics.net Lines: 29 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37449 John Forkosh wrote: > At the moment, I've got 5,000+ pages to scan from large-format > paper notebooks. So "multiple scans" per page would be really > inconvenient. I already have to manually turn the pages, can't > use autofeed for bound notebooks, and each 152-page notebook > takes ~2.5hours to scan. Definitely a pain in the elbow. That's the sort of thing where I'd definately use a digital camera and correct for the lens distortion in software, using a flatbed scanner would be entirely impractical for that if you're not willing to chop the spine off the notebooks and use a page feeder. Scan Tailor is the software that I tried out for doing the post-processing (removing lens distortion, cropping) and it seems quite good. Post-processing with it is still a fair bit of work (hence I haven't got around to it) depending on how good your rig is, but you'd make up for that easily with time saved doing the actual scanning. https://scantailor.org/ Rigging up something like the professional book scanning tables where you can lift up a piece of glass and then rest it down on the paper to make it sit flat after you turn each page might be worthwhile for your application as well. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#