http://bookliberator.org/ 2013-05-22T22:38:38-04:00 http://bookliberator.org/ http://bookliberator.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2011-04-18T17:24:12-04:00 Ian Sullivan http://bookliberator.org/doku.php?id=design_decisions&rev=1303161852&do=diff This page goes a bit beyond the FAQ and the hardwareideas. It tries to answer some questions that beginners might ask. Book digitization Should books be digitized? -- Yes, digitization has lots of advantages. It can make books instantly accessible to remote readers at times when libraries are closed. It also makes the content searchable. text/html 2011-02-28T04:18:29-04:00 Russel Feedman http://bookliberator.org/doku.php?id=scantailor&rev=1298884709&do=diff Overview ScanTailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file. Scanning, optical character recognition, and assembling multi-page documents are out of scope of this project. text/html 2011-02-28T04:18:27-04:00 Russel Feedman http://bookliberator.org/doku.php?id=decapod&rev=1298884707&do=diff Overview decapod is a project focused on building a low-cost digitization solution that will allow for rare materials, materials held in collections without large budgets, and other scholarly content to be digitized into a high-quality PDF format. This project will work to incorporate the hardware and software necessary to accomplish this goal. text/html 2011-01-23T17:30:35-04:00 Karl Fogel http://bookliberator.org/doku.php?id=start&rev=1295821835&do=diff ---------- This is the home page and the documentation wiki of the BookLiberator project. BookLiberator is a set of free software and hardware to digitize books: it lets you photograph all the pages in a book without harming the book. The resulting images can be processed with free, open source software to make user-friendly files in a variety of formats. text/html 2010-10-23T17:20:14-04:00 Matt Zimmerman http://bookliberator.org/doku.php?id=softwarerequirements&rev=1287868814&do=diff Overview This document is a work in progress. The BookLiberator project will include software to assist in the creation of electronic books from printed source material. This software will generally be used on a personal computer, independent of the BookLiberator device itself, to process the images captured on the BookLiberator.