Digitizing a book, from paper to online publishing
to turn scanner on
- power supply on (on top red button)
- lamp on (put plug in wall)
1. to start a new book (delete pics from bookscanner)
- unplug the usb cable
- put camera switch on play mode
- turn camera on
- press print button (to disable bookscanner script)
- press "menu"
- press "erase all"
- turn off camera
2. to scan a book
- disconnect usb cable !!
- put camera switch on picture mode
- press the power button on camera
- press print button
- on top of camera use the zoom thingie around shutter button to put the zoom on 3/1.7 (shows on the screen, first line on the right side)
- press print button
- check that the fabric on the bookscanner is well positioned, and that there is not too much sun or other light going in the scanner
- take pictures
- check for first couple of pictures that the counters show the same number on both camera's
- when you are done taking pictures press the little erase button (+/-)
- on screen it will say "FINISHED"
- switch the mode switch to play mode
- connect the usb cable to the computer
- Click "Get pics from bookscanner" on the desktop
- Choose new (press 1 and press enter)
- type name and press enter
- type catalog number (in case of Appelscha library its AAA and then the number from the excel sheet) for example AAA00023
- when it says "exited with code: 0" everything was fine, if it gives a different code, copy complete terminal and put it in a file in /home/user/pusciicloud/bookscanning/errors
- press enter to exit
3. tailor the book
- click "start scantailor" on desktop
- choose "existing book" (type 2 and then ENTER)
- type the number of the book and press ENTER
- scantailer will now start
- do all the tailoring
- click file-> save project
- exit scantailor
- press enter in the terminal
4. ocr the book and generate a pdf
- Click "Make OCR and PDF" on the desktop
- choose existing (type 2 and ENTER)
- select book (number of book and ENTER)
- press enter to exit
- check the pdf in /home/user/pusciicloud/bookscanning/books/[name]/data/out
- if pdf is not good, go back to "3. tailor the book"
5. upload the book to collaborative server
- click "Upload Book" on the desktop
- choose existing (type 2 and ENTER)
- select book (number of book and ENTER)
- wait while book gets send to server
- when it says "exited with code: 0" everything was fine, in this case scan more books , if it gives a different code, copy complete terminal and put it in a file in /home/user/pusciicloud/bookscanning/errors
- complain on xchat in the #lag channel if it never completes, or if it gives a code other then zero, or if there is other errors in the terminal
- press enter to exit
- if this step fails, you can still upload the pdf somewhere
6. publish the book somewhere
(shadow) libraries
- https://gen.lib.rus.ec
- https://anarcho-copy.org (turkish)