Yeah, I know! Tell me about it. I'm forever moving country and carrying my network infrastructure with me. I mean, this 32U rack is killing me, good job it doesn't require to be plugged in though.
I suspect that Xerox machine you talk of will actually be moving just a light/mirror which is reflecting into a camera. (or possibly a CCD arrangement, but usually they are in cheaper machines) But either way scanning a book on a 'flatbed' whereby the book has to be placed face down is a major chore. turning the page means lifting the book, turning the page, then turning the book back over and repositioning it etc etc. Even if the scan takes a blink all that manual work will make it tedious at best.
Flat bed scanners - well slow. So slow it's not even worth bothering with
Orbital/Planetary scanners - much faster, essentially the same as your DSLR hanging above the page. Less than a second for a 'scan', rate limited by speed of turning the pages. A 5 secs to turn an scan that's 12 images a min or 720 an hour.
What the GP was talking about: Duplex feeder scanners. If you can cut the spine of the book and feed in into one of these then your laughing. Some of them will do 2-300 full colour pages a minute with no sweat. That's 10,000 scans per hour..... Orders of magnitude faster.
software that comes with the system deals with the curving
This is what the OP is asking about. Plenty of these systems ship with the combined hardware/software pack and cost thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars.
It sounds like the OP has taken a few shots of a handy book maybe at a friends house or whatever and would like to just 'sort' them out before finally archiving them on to his system. Kind of like how some people like to tag all the MP3s before 'committing' them to their system. Free, and FOSS options for this type of software are limited, I would be interested in some kind of thing as well.
As with most scanning and other things, you can save your self immense amounts of hassle time and money later, by spending a fraction of that time up front sorting out the 'input'. A bit of glass over the book, using a scanner, or even getting a friend to hold a book will mean that your source image will be much better to start with.
Not everyone has 5-10mm thick peices of book sized glass lying around and it can be hard to take that sort of thing about the place in case of requiring to photo a book.
There is software called Book restorer that does this removes curves 'geometrical correction' etc but it's pricy.
i've tried un paper and it's pretty decent for what it does but it does have some limitations and it's not the most convenient to use.
Deskewing, cropping, filling, etc etc are all easily done and I've even written imagemagick batch scripts in windows to do these things. The major trick is the curve removal.
There's various ways you can determine the curve from a scanned image. If you have the edge of the page, you can calculate the movement required to straighten that, and then apply it to the whole image. You can use text based curve removal, similar to well known deskew algorithms for text, but takes into account different parts of the text may be 'more' skewed. i.e. rather than a rotational deskew a 'sliced' deskew. This needs to be done from the top to the middle and the bottom to the middle.
If you have a good 'shape' of the page, and know the true size of the page, you can use a kind of morph operator to morph the corners back to th eright position and hope the image follows.
Using a Greyscale/colour source will work better than a black and white source image in general.
the other option is if the scanned / photoed page is actually of reasonaly good quality but if just a bit squint, then OCR it to a PDF and generate a new document using the OCR text, which will be pin sharp accurate, compress a lot better and be easier to use, although may not be ideal if there are too many errors.
In the UK a caravan is a caravan. If it sleeps 8 and has e.g. 2 axles and requires towing by a 4x4 or whatever, it's just a 'big caravan'. A smaller single axle one that sleeps maybe up to 4 is just called a 'caravan' or a 'small caravan'.
The kind of thing that collapses into a small trailer is called a 'trailer tent', if it's the thing I'm thinking of. Also an alternative name for a 'camper van' is just 'camper' or 'caravanette' (less frequently used).
Right on. I do the same thing. Have an Opera session that's been running for 34 days on my Win2k box here. No issues. Best thing is to edit the shortcuts, enable sinlge button shortcuts, and change next tab / previous tab to '1' and '2'. This way you can zip through all the tabs and if need be, reorder the way they will appear when you close one (by previously focussing it)
Other awesome can't ive without features: Fit to width, decent zoom, quick way to enable/disable images and styles, The undo button/trash can for closed pages, drag and drop tabs in and out of the window, Notes, and magic wand.
We'll begin with box, and
the plural is boxes,
But the plural of
ox is oxen
, not "oxes"
Then one
fowl is a goose and two are geese,
Yet the plural of moose
would never be "meese,"
You may find a
lone mouse or a whole lot of mice,
But the plural of house is houses
, not "hice."
If the plural of man is
always men,
Why shouldnt the plural of
pan
be "pen"?
Cow in
the plural may be cows or kine.
But the plural of vow is vows
, not "vine."
I speak of a foot and you show me
your feet.
I give you a boot
; would you call a pair "beet"?
If the singular
is tooth and the plural teeth,
Why shouldnt the plural of booth
be "beeth"?
If the singular is this, and the
plural is these,
Should the plural of
kiss
rightly be "keese"?
Then, with ONE
you use that and with THREE, those,
Yet the plural of hat
is never called "hose."
We speak of a brother and also of
brethren;
But though we say
mother
, we never say "methren."
The masculine
pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine
the feminine as she
, "shis," and "shim."
So English, I think -- and you must agree
Is a language as queer as any youll see.
I would say the same. Forgot to mention the Active directory integration which works nicely with the LDAP etc. I too would consider alternatives if doing it again, but GLPI works, but can be a bitch to setup.
Yes.
But for the Wii most of this is new content, as Wii never got Guitar hero 1 or 2. That being said, most of the songs on GH are suck, and wii players probably better off not having had gH 1 and 2.
We went a little further as well by getting floor and building plans and made clickable image maps for all the locations so that you can just browse to the building/floor/cubicle, see what is in there already, and add new stuff or move existing stuff etc
This is very interesting I had this idea the other week as getting everything into these systems can be no problem, but actually managing stuff once it's in there and updating it can be a bitch. But graphically just mirroring what has been done an the floor seems like a nice solution, and solves many things at once.
Did you use image maps, and some image magick tiling? Or some mad table/grid coordinate system? Or save CSS javascript drag and drop style thing?
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Yeah, I know! Tell me about it. I'm forever moving country and carrying my network infrastructure with me. I mean, this 32U rack is killing me, good job it doesn't require to be plugged in though.
So what job did you move to?
what about codswallop? Or is that something else entirely?
Yes. Forgot about these. They are pretty neat for just getting a couple of pages out a book. Scan quality is pretty good aswell
I suspect that Xerox machine you talk of will actually be moving just a light/mirror which is reflecting into a camera. (or possibly a CCD arrangement, but usually they are in cheaper machines) But either way scanning a book on a 'flatbed' whereby the book has to be placed face down is a major chore. turning the page means lifting the book, turning the page, then turning the book back over and repositioning it etc etc. Even if the scan takes a blink all that manual work will make it tedious at best.
Orbital/Planetary scanners - much faster, essentially the same as your DSLR hanging above the page. Less than a second for a 'scan', rate limited by speed of turning the pages. A 5 secs to turn an scan that's 12 images a min or 720 an hour.
What the GP was talking about: Duplex feeder scanners. If you can cut the spine of the book and feed in into one of these then your laughing. Some of them will do 2-300 full colour pages a minute with no sweat. That's 10,000 scans per hour..... Orders of magnitude faster.
This is what the OP is asking about. Plenty of these systems ship with the combined hardware/software pack and cost thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars.
It sounds like the OP has taken a few shots of a handy book maybe at a friends house or whatever and would like to just 'sort' them out before finally archiving them on to his system. Kind of like how some people like to tag all the MP3s before 'committing' them to their system. Free, and FOSS options for this type of software are limited, I would be interested in some kind of thing as well.
Not everyone has 5-10mm thick peices of book sized glass lying around and it can be hard to take that sort of thing about the place in case of requiring to photo a book.
There is software called Book restorer that does this removes curves 'geometrical correction' etc but it's pricy.
i've tried un paper and it's pretty decent for what it does but it does have some limitations and it's not the most convenient to use.
Deskewing, cropping, filling, etc etc are all easily done and I've even written imagemagick batch scripts in windows to do these things. The major trick is the curve removal.
There's various ways you can determine the curve from a scanned image. If you have the edge of the page, you can calculate the movement required to straighten that, and then apply it to the whole image. You can use text based curve removal, similar to well known deskew algorithms for text, but takes into account different parts of the text may be 'more' skewed. i.e. rather than a rotational deskew a 'sliced' deskew. This needs to be done from the top to the middle and the bottom to the middle.
If you have a good 'shape' of the page, and know the true size of the page, you can use a kind of morph operator to morph the corners back to th eright position and hope the image follows.
Using a Greyscale/colour source will work better than a black and white source image in general.
the other option is if the scanned / photoed page is actually of reasonaly good quality but if just a bit squint, then OCR it to a PDF and generate a new document using the OCR text, which will be pin sharp accurate, compress a lot better and be easier to use, although may not be ideal if there are too many errors.
kilos of metres, obviously.
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usfeatures/midges/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopogonidae
In the UK a caravan is a caravan. If it sleeps 8 and has e.g. 2 axles and requires towing by a 4x4 or whatever, it's just a 'big caravan'. A smaller single axle one that sleeps maybe up to 4 is just called a 'caravan' or a 'small caravan'.
The kind of thing that collapses into a small trailer is called a 'trailer tent', if it's the thing I'm thinking of. Also an alternative name for a 'camper van' is just 'camper' or 'caravanette' (less frequently used).
That comment was made before the iPod became the popular phenomenmom known worldwide today.
That has the inherent problem though, of "tl;dw".
I'll tell you after it's finished compiling!
Other awesome can't ive without features: Fit to width, decent zoom, quick way to enable/disable images and styles, The undo button/trash can for closed pages, drag and drop tabs in and out of the window, Notes, and magic wand.
I would want it tweeting the location of my tv remote. I am always losing them.
A beowulf cluster of linux machines running Opera might, just.
But the plural of ox is oxen , not "oxes"
Then one fowl is a goose and two are geese
Yet the plural of moose would never be "meese,"
You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice , ,
But the plural of house is houses , not "hice."
If the plural of man is always men
Why shouldnt the plural of pan be "pen"?
Cow in the plural may be cows or kine . .
But the plural of vow is vows , not "vine."
I speak of a foot and you show me your feet
I give you a boot ; would you call a pair "beet"?
If the singular is tooth and the plural teeth , ,
Why shouldnt the plural of booth be "beeth"?
If the singular is this, and the plural is these
Should the plural of kiss rightly be "keese"?
Then, with ONE you use that and with THREE, those , ;
Yet the plural of hat is never called "hose."
We speak of a brother and also of brethren
But though we say mother , we never say "methren."
The masculine pronouns are he, his and him ,
But imagine the feminine as she , "shis," and "shim."
So English, I think -- and you must agree
Is a language as queer as any youll see.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled moa?
I would say the same. Forgot to mention the Active directory integration which works nicely with the LDAP etc. I too would consider alternatives if doing it again, but GLPI works, but can be a bitch to setup.
Yes. But for the Wii most of this is new content, as Wii never got Guitar hero 1 or 2. That being said, most of the songs on GH are suck, and wii players probably better off not having had gH 1 and 2.
Ur doin' it wrong!
Interestingly, if you google for 'click here', guess what the first result is?
This is very interesting I had this idea the other week as getting everything into these systems can be no problem, but actually managing stuff once it's in there and updating it can be a bitch.
But graphically just mirroring what has been done an the floor seems like a nice solution, and solves many things at once.
Did you use image maps, and some image magick tiling? Or some mad table/grid coordinate system? Or save CSS javascript drag and drop style thing?
yeah - this : http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1310515&cid=28775629