I have scanned dozens of books with my Lumix FZ20 camera and it worked fine. No flash, just ambient diffused light from a window. A small pane of non-reflective glass (from Michaels) was/is used to flatten each page - 2 pages per shot. The only reason I had to switch to an overhead scanner (Aver U50) is that my back started hurting from bending over the book(s).
I scan books a lot, here are my wish list for the new models: 1) "background color smoothing" or "background purification" (as different brands call it differently): so that a blue will be captured as a solid blue instead of thousand differently slightly different blue. This can significantly improve OCR qualify and reduce scanned file szie. 2) regional detection. Many textbooks has diagrams in the middle of the page, which forces people to use gradescale because black and white scanning will render the diagram unreadable while scanning it in colors will hugely increase the file size. 3) vectorizing scanned images. Even Abbyy and some other OCR tools are far more accurate than Acrobat, Acrobat is still my first and only choice when it comes to OCR English materials because it has a profile that can just vectorize fonts while it carries out OCR. This can make the file size 1/10 the original file size and at the same time makes the text crisp and clear that cannot be gotten from other OCR tools.
piQx Imaging its been I think 3 years since I last used my xcanex before life hit me and I got terribly busy, but I had a textbook that was slightly larger than the board provided for the xcanex. So I had to improvise a way to capture a whole page including bringing up the camera or putting the whole xcanex on top of a platform higher than the table, and turning off the auto feature because it couldn’t tell the dimensions. No matter what I did, I kept getting glares still. It seems the xcanex only works for certain sizes of books and not big textbooks. So I just used my iPhone to take photos of the pages I needed and worked from there to avoid the unforgiving glare. Otherwise the xcanex works well, but with this video I thought maybe something changed the last three years. Hence my question.
Our guess is that your camera angle is set incorrectly. When scanning glossy material, you have to increase the camera angle - after increasing camera angle, set the pad and book position again.
Depends on your scanning needs. I think that they have a lot of knowledge gather from their years of trying to find solutions to particular scanning process issues.
I have scanned dozens of books with my Lumix FZ20 camera and it worked fine. No flash, just ambient diffused light from a window. A small pane of non-reflective glass (from Michaels) was/is used to flatten each page - 2 pages per shot. The only reason I had to switch to an overhead scanner (Aver U50) is that my back started hurting from bending over the book(s).
I scan books a lot, here are my wish list for the new models:
1) "background color smoothing" or "background purification" (as different brands call it differently): so that a blue will be captured as a solid blue instead of thousand differently slightly different blue. This can significantly improve OCR qualify and reduce scanned file szie.
2) regional detection. Many textbooks has diagrams in the middle of the page, which forces people to use gradescale because black and white scanning will render the diagram unreadable while scanning it in colors will hugely increase the file size.
3) vectorizing scanned images. Even Abbyy and some other OCR tools are far more accurate than Acrobat, Acrobat is still my first and only choice when it comes to OCR English materials because it has a profile that can just vectorize fonts while it carries out OCR. This can make the file size 1/10 the original file size and at the same time makes the text crisp and clear that cannot be gotten from other OCR tools.
Since your scanners are sold out, bring the software to market separately.
The CRUZ range is also hard to find online
15:15 Why you didnt use voice activation to scan ...like GO! or SCAN!
That way you can read and scan at the same time!!
Thank you for the documentation. It's inspiring!
Thanks a lot for making this.
Hi Guys. Everybody talk for scanning software. What is the easiest way to remove and fix pdf pages that do have those image bends from book?
where can i get one besides ebay?
I scanned so many books with my HP scanner. I wish had one of those.
So where is it?
I bought one a few years ago. In practice, it was very inconsistent and disappointing. Really not fit for purpose.
You guys are sold out, when you expecting to have them in stock?
are all these improvements all in software updates, or does this require new xcanex devices?
All of them have been long available for all xcanex users using the Perfecapture5 for Windows and PerfecaptureMac for the Mac OS.
piQx Imaging its been I think 3 years since I last used my xcanex before life hit me and I got terribly busy, but I had a textbook that was slightly larger than the board provided for the xcanex. So I had to improvise a way to capture a whole page including bringing up the camera or putting the whole xcanex on top of a platform higher than the table, and turning off the auto feature because it couldn’t tell the dimensions. No matter what I did, I kept getting glares still. It seems the xcanex only works for certain sizes of books and not big textbooks. So I just used my iPhone to take photos of the pages I needed and worked from there to avoid the unforgiving glare. Otherwise the xcanex works well, but with this video I thought maybe something changed the last three years. Hence my question.
Our guess is that your camera angle is set incorrectly. When scanning glossy material, you have to increase the camera angle - after increasing camera angle, set the pad and book position again.
Maybe this video will help
ua-cam.com/video/WohL5fwRidM/v-deo.html
Outstanding!
With how many times they used *algorithms* to solve their problems, why develop hardware at all? Just release the software as an app.
These people think they are too smart, but book scanning isn't that simple.
Depends on your scanning needs.
I think that they have a lot of knowledge gather from their years of trying to find solutions to particular scanning process issues.
dafaq is this?
Excellent !
Unbind the books
Wonderful!