IT was fantastic! meeting the SUDO room last Tuesday. I hope this is not too much detail

*** Please tell me how... the best way for me to get in there Monday to be able to look over the sizes of the parts etc mostly bolts I will need to complete the base hopefully Monday. Any suggestions on hardware mounting cameras? We might need to mount/un-mount/align cameras for each session. The original mounting brackets were replaced(at some point) with blocks of wood with holes to accommodate various sizes and positions of cameras.

(Does the below or some version of it need a wiki page?)
1-2-18, The Sudo room collective et al with Dany from Noisebridge and Jacques assembled SUDO's book scanner "base." See at diybookscanner.org "Book Scanner Rigs" a basic diagram and list of hardware (w/out lights & cams) - with lights & cams, could be called a "rig." I think the distinction is important introducing people to the concept:

The base is essential for an operator to mount cameras (connected to a computer), as she flips the pages of a book, running the "capture" software because, the hundreds of images captured comprising the pages of a book should be aligned (as much as possible) similarly in 3 dimensions - so that "post-processing" software can determine what and where everything is to automatically align, process, OCR etc and then create a digital book.

"After capture, you will have a folder full of images. Turning those images into an eBook is called 'post-processing'. What steps this actually entails depends on your needs. Some people want to compress things down as much as possible and extract the text of the book using OCR. Others just want to crop each image to the page and bind them into a PDF."  diybookscanner.org/en/intro.html

These two links provide images and discussion of this particular scanner. Someone dubbed the model: Reese 1.0
(This diybookscanner.org/archivist is the "Reese 2.0" model named and sold as "The Archivist". Very similar to the 1.0 probably.)

HERE IS WHAT I THINK IS NEEDED TO GET TO CAPTURING BOOKS AND MAKING THE BOOK SCANNER USABLE:

1. CLIPS TO LOCK DOWN TOP HALF TO BOTTOM
If you watch "BETA DIY Book Scanner Kit Demo and Walkthrough" (the Reese 1.0?)
:54 seconds in "A third thing..." he explains why the design looks the way that it does - to allow for flipping the top half of the scanner to use a different scanning technique for small mass market type paperbacks which are bound tight - with tiny inner margins - which make them hard to scan on most kinds of scanners. Dany and I put a couple of screws in to make sure no one started flipping th the top because the glass platens are not clipped down very tight.

2. BASE
handle
bolt w/knob for attaching/adjusting 1 camera base
bungee chords
some other bits I will figure out Monday
power strip bolted down with 6-7 recepticles

3. LIGHTING
To get pages brightly and evenly lit requires a particular kind of light and other lighting etc to be blacked out. There should be a simple solution for the lamp needed. I will post the question to the forum this week. I can't get into reading through and examining all this:
My initial thought on blackout is curtains and curtain rods are unwiely and I want to try making a simple heavy duty cardboard box spray painted flat black on the inside

3. CAMERAS
Resolution needed is one issue. Control is another. Storage/security and availability are another.
Jake said "I can donate two identical Canon digital cameras to this project."
"The current camera recommendation is Canon PowerShot ELPH 160. These are 20MP cameras which work with Pi Scan and are still being manufactured."
http://www.diybookscanner.org/en/intro.html

4. COMPUTER / SOFTWARE
My thought at the moment is since different people have different goals requiring different software, I want to have mine loaded on my own macbook but am also interested in setting up a public computer for this.

5. SECURITY & STORAGE
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Jacques