1 Nov
2014
1 Nov
'14
3:08 p.m.
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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