![]() ![]() Five megapixel, 600 DPI scanner, can capture pages up to A3 in size. ![]() Also features 40x zoom for intricate scans. Available as a full set of assembly plans and corrugated card material for $14.99.Įpson DC-10 Document Camera. Portable lamp and SXGA camera combo which lets you capture up to two pages at a time onto the internal memory or SD memory card. This innovative little structure is specially designed to hold your mobile phone (it’s specified for an iPhone, but will probably adapt nicely to any other smartphone with a decent camera) in the right position to scan documents on the fly. Obviously if you need to scan large books you should think about using some sort of frame to hold the camera. If you’re using Android, then you’ll need something like the Burrotech Scan2PDF Mobile software ($14.99) and you’ll be set. With the arrival of 5 to 8 megapixel cameras on mobile phones, there’s no reason why you can’t use your humble handset as a text scanner and converter. And of course some free software to convert from a JPEG image to PDF. You’ll need some tubing, wood scrap and lots of little screws to build the frame and cam holder. Another impressive home-brew design, coming in at less than $20 for materials excluding camera. Other than that it’s a standard 1200dpi, 48bit flatbed scanner with OCR software and cataloging software for an impressively low $209.99. Low cost, ‘zero edge’ scanner which is specially designed to cope with book spines and avoid gutter shadow when scanning. Just throw in a lamp or two and a cheap digital camera and you’re good to go. The ultimate sticking tape and string scanner, grabbing whatever is around the house. Priced from around free.Ĭardboard Box Scanner. Now a wildly successful community of scanner hackers, with free plans, a forum and loads of divergent products. The first serious open source movement to create a family of working cheap DIY book scanners. This type of manual scanner typically copes with 3–400 pages an hour, which makes them ideal for personal or small business use. Nice looking and elegantly constructed V-cage style scanner which is targeted at a price of $350 or so including twin cameras. Here’s a quick roundup of some of the most interesting offerings out there.īook Liberator. Where before you would have to spend upwards of $3000 for a ‘cheap’ book scanner, you can now get away with shelling out just a few hundred dollars, or in some cases almost nothing if you can scrounge up the bits. The art of book scanning – propelled no doubt by the sudden flood of e-book readers like the Kindle, iPad and others – is hotting up significantly.
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