
Hi Jon, Nope, I think you're part of a pretty popular movement there. There's a whole cottage industry of building home-made book scanners that consist of a jig to hold the book and a pair of digital cameras positioned to capture the two facing pages. Look at http://www.diybookscanner.org/ Personally, I still use a flatbed, but that's because I'm a Luddite. On 14-Apr-2010 10:42, Jon Richfield wrote:
FWIW, Since I bought myself a digital camera for general use, plus a copy of Omniscan, my scanner has been pretty well idle. [...]
Is my choice unusual in any way?
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