Re: [sudo-discuss] bookscanner in bay area?

someone came to IRC asking if we had a bookscanner, because they are visually impaired and need to read some books after scanning them. here is what they said in IRC. I don't know how to contact them but I think we should prioritize making a working bookscanner, or at least a regular scanner, at sudoroom, and putting mention of it on our website in an easily read way. Our site is not the best for visually impaired people to read, so we should keep that in mind when making changes. also i am pleased to say that the robot arm has volunteered to help with any bookscanning efforts, if we have a scanner and book that we are willing to sacrifice in the name of training it to be gentle. we can easily attach vacuum and air-blowing nozzles onto its hand, and it can wield a flatbed scanner and place it onto the pages of the books, given sufficient software intelligence and programming. -jake 10:10 < jacques_> Hey, I have a reading disability and am looking for access to a book scanner this week and interested in working with book scanner hardware and software with my local hackerspaces long term. The scanners at noisebride and AMT are taken apart currently and the book scanning service at the digital archive only converts to daisy as I understand it. I need to scan 2 250 page hardback books to text or PDF-text to be able to do text-t[o speech conversion] 10:10 < jacques_> Do you have a book scanner or do you know where I can accomplish this locally? I am a professional AV tech with lots of video, audio, arts, books and DIY experience. 10:22 < yar> jacques_: i don't think we have a book scanner. if we do, it's definitely not well-documented or operational. 10:31 < jacques_> Who would you ask if you were trying to quickly find a book scanner in the Bay Area? 10:32 < yar> idk, noisebridge's scanners may be taken apart but they still have a "digitalarchivist" email list where i've seen some activity recently 10:33 < yar> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/ digitalarchivists 10:34 < yar> oh wait that most recent email is probably from you, huh? :) 10:45 < jacques_> yes...(sigh) lots of discussion for this half-blind half-deaf half-wit 10:45 < jacques_> but no scanno 11:00 < jacques_> sorry for that moment of self-pity. I am unable to read books except with audio and am part of an important campaign I need to ead a book by the 2 authors for short promo http://youtu.be/CsJVwxwYhag a breif promo 11:04 < jacques_> without capital-ism, we would not need to have this conversation because copy-right would not have technology, books and all ideas locked up 11:33 < jacques_> called 3 tech shops techshop.ws for-profit hackerspaces but still cannot locate in perhaps the technology center of the solarsystem the proverbila bookscanner which in theory are becomming avilable in all hackerspaces globally 11:33 < jacques_> diybookscanner.org 12:19 -!- jacques_ [62cff885(a)gateway/web/freenode/ip.98.207.248.133] 12:19 -!- was : 98.207.248.133 - http://webchat.freenode.net 12:19 -!- server : herbert.freenode.net [Sat Nov 1 19:16:01 2014] 12:19 -!- End of WHOWAS _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss