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

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