DIY Book Scanner

I hadn't seen the diybookscanner.eu kit when I posted my question. It looks like it would actually be most sensible to buy that kit rather than getting the cutting done myself.

I just need to work out some other bits.

Many thanks,

Roger

Thanks for posting this. I'm just looking to buy one of their kits so will be really interested to read about your experiences.

Hi, I am talking to a guy with a cnc machine about cutting the plans for me here is Edinburgh, Scotland. The birch plywood looks a little expensive and he suggested we might use MDF. Has anyone built this with MDF? Would it be possible? Would it be much heavier? Also I was wondering whether you woul...

Thanks for your comments. Antoha-spb yours looks really cool but I'll not try handling the moving parts till I have tackled the OCR issue.

Roger

You may be interested in my blog page, inspired by this site, on building a scanner last weekend. It was a lot of fun but I don't know where I'll take it next. I'd need to put some work into post processing and OCR and don't want to spend money. You can read the blog here http://www.hyam.net/blog/ar...