Hi Umesha, I apologize for the late response but I filter this list into its mailbox and did not have a chance to look at it until now.
My answers are inline. Hi Pranav ji, Thank you for your constructive views on the matter. 1. Even sighted people face difficulty in aligning the pages properly. I am thinking of having a custom made stand or monopod with a long base having straight edge. I think we can align the books to that edge as we do with scanner edges. PL] This may be possible. 2. how much the monopods cost? do you have any idea of where can we get them and can we get it customised? PL] I am not sure about the cost of a monopod. I had once searched for buy monopod delhi and had found a company selling them. They are photography accessories so may be available in shops that sell them.. 3. certainly Lighting is another potential issue and I am facing that in my experiments. how about cameras with flash light? how about having a bright light source like tube lights? PL] You will have to experiment. The problem with bright light is over exposure of the image. 4. why do we need autofocus? cant we set the focus once for the camera on a monopod as said above and turn the pages and capture them? PL] This is not easy to do. How will you keep everything fixed in one place? How will you handle different sizes of books? Stick to autofocus and you will be better off. 5. I do not know any thing about camera scanners like pearl. I am grateful if you can give some more information on them. PL] For the pearl, see http://www.freedomscientific.com. There are other camera scanners as well. I note some have suggested that you use your mobile phone. That is an option worth investigating but much depends on the kind of books you scan. I would not fancy scanning a book with facing pages using a mobile phone camera. The field of view is too narrow. Pranav Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
