[sane-devel] `Scanning' with a Digital Camera

2009-12-18 Thread Daniel Reetz
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Herbert Carl Meyer wrote: > Brian: > > >From an item on boingboing, an instructable on building a book scanner. > Unbelievably, they wrote a windows app to convert the images to .pdf's. > I do not think the app does ocr. > > http://www.instructables.com/id/SGP6LHR

[sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?

2009-06-12 Thread Daniel Reetz
> Recently I've seen Lido support added - for $80 for scanner it worth trying. Thanks for that! I have a LiDE around, but for my application, a film plane that's closer to 35mm film (or a bit larger) is ideal... using the linear array from a CCD scanner directly is what I'd like to do.

[sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?

2009-06-11 Thread Daniel Reetz
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:46 PM, m. allan noah wrote: > Are you trying to build a digital back for something like a medium > format body, or are you trying to build one of these panoramic > machines? I am trying to build a digital back for a custom camera, something like a medium format camera.

[sane-devel] Most Hackable Scanner?

2009-06-10 Thread Daniel Reetz
m the SANE site that many Fujitsu and Epson scanners have "complete" support (http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=&model=&bus=usb&v=&p=), but I'm not sure exactly what that means in terms of my project. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appre