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I'd really love to do this too, but I just finished my studies and feel bad about spending 300 Euros on a scanner. Does anybody have good alternatives?
by rb2k_ 16y ago
I'd really love to do this too, but I just finished my studies and feel bad about spending 300 Euros on a scanner. Does anybody have good alternatives?
- brfox 16y agoBuy a used one, scan everything, then sell it. That's what I was going to do, but I liked the scanner so much I just kept it.
- masklinn 16y agoThe problem with selling it is that society as a whole hasn't gone paperless, so you still have boatloads of inbound paper, which means you continuously have to scan stuff.
- billswift 16y agoThis was mentioned on HN a long while back, it uses ordinary digital cameras: http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-from-Trash-and-Cheap-C/ http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-... I don't have anything this elaborate. I have a cheap 3-in-1 printer that I scan some stuff with, and a cheap ~$70 digital camera that I use for stuff that it would be inconvenient to scan. The images are good enough to read on the computer though not great.