Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix3.panix.com!not-for-mail From: John Forkosh Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Dumb Pinter Question Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 08:36:44 -0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: <9FKdnSx-aYhJ5pz5nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <-MKdnaGEcp-jap75nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <17ydnXi6-MG65Zj5nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@earthlink.com> <6405822a@news.ausics.net> Injection-Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 08:36:44 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix3.panix.com:166.84.1.3"; logging-data="4324"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: tin/2.6.0-20210823 ("Coleburn") (NetBSD/9.3 (amd64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37461 Carlos E.R. wrote: > 28B.I874 wrote: >> ?? For 5000+ big pages, maybe you should consider a >> ?? decent print shop instead of do-it-yourself. They >> ?? may have a 4x5 digital cam, or even a really large >> ?? format scanner. That you say these are bound books >> ?? is a real problem - can't use a pull-page-thru kind >> ?? of scanner, it'd have to be a huge flatbed. > > > There are scanners for bound books, even automatic. > I saw a video, long ago, of a bed in V shape, and two cameras above: > cam cam > * * > * * > * * > * > And another glass in V above, to hold the book in between "flat" against > the V table. Take the photos, lift glass, pass next page. It was fast. > Maybe moving to next page was manual, I don't remember. Something like 4 > seconds per page. Yup, now that you mention it, I also recall coming across that V-shaped kind of device while googling for alternative solutions (back in 2015) like you and 28B are suggesting. But after my really bad experience with that Plustek scanner (described in an upthread post, but not worth searching for, just details of "bad experience") I decided to stick with standard off-the-shelf, run-of-the-mill equipment. And the Brother MFC-J6920DW both (a)"just works", and (b)cost just $250 back in 2016, whereas alternatives cost like an order-of-magnitude more, and I was very wary whether they'd "just work" with standard PCs and peripherals. -- John Forkosh ( mailto: j@f.com where j=john and f=forkosh )