http://bkrpr.org/ 2010-09-07T02:32:28-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/ http://bkrpr.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-07-19T16:12:33-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=branches&rev=1279570353&do=diff To download BookLiberator, use bazaar: bzr branch <branch> The project's trunk is at lp:bookliberator. If you have commit access to it (i.e. if you are listed on this page), tell bzr your launchpad login name: bzr launchpad-login <user-id> text/html 2010-07-19T16:48:33-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=cameramodels&rev=1279572513&do=diff To test the resolution of your camera, here is a test chart that you can print. Cannon Powershoot A590 The Cannon Powershoot A590 offers a good mix of features and low price that we know of. If you are interested in purchasing a cheep and very functional camera for bookliberating, these recently retailed for ~$99. text/html 2009-11-04T14:19:35-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=contributetothiswiki&rev=1257362375&do=diff If you would like to help improve the pages in this wiki, just register for an account and get started. Some pages need more attention than others. We're particularly interested in improvements to our software and hardware documentation. But you can also use this wiki to tell the world about your own experiences with BookLiberator. Even (especially!) failed experiments are worth sharing. text/html 2009-11-04T14:18:26-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=demomaterials&rev=1257362306&do=diff BookLiberator on You Tube View a video of the BookLiberator in action here: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjRKeHPRa2k> Other videos will appear here and at <http://www.youtube.com/bkrpr> as they are made. BookLiberator on Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/bkrpr> text/html 2010-07-19T16:42:11-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=design_decisions&rev=1279572131&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 2010-07-19T16:47:14-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=download&rev=1279572434&do=diff BookLiberator is written in Python and requires that you have a working Python environment. In addition, it has some dependencies: numpy, tesseract, psyco and pygtk. You'll need to install both of these for BookLiberator to work. Releases Version 0.1.82 is available for download. text/html 2010-07-19T16:08:07-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=faq&rev=1279570087&do=diff <h2 class="faq"><a name="what_is_bookliberator" id="what_is_bookliberator"><span class="faq">What is BookLiberator?</span></a></h2> BookLiberator is a set of hardware plans for a machine that produces digital photos or scans of book pages. It is also software that turns those raw images into more usable (i.e. rotated and cropped) images and organized (i.e. ocr'd and formatted) text. <h2 class="faq"><a name="where_is_bookliberator" id="where_is_bookliberator"><span class="faq">Where is BookLib… text/html 2009-01-11T13:53:30-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=gplv3&rev=1231700010&do=diff GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away y… text/html 2010-07-19T16:48:54-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=hardwareideas&rev=1279572534&do=diff Plexiglass * We're currently testing whether non-glare coating on the plexi helps simplify lighting by reducing or eliminating points of bright glare in page photos. Stand * Paint the inside of the book cradle a flat, dark color, such as matte black. This makes it a lot easier to have software crop off the non-book parts of the image. I used black because that's what unpaper looks for. text/html 2010-07-19T16:35:25-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=hardwareplans&rev=1279571725&do=diff This is where you find information on how to build a BookLiberator. If you are looking for the hardware development and suggestion page, see HardwareIdeas Plastic Ordering The only custom piece in our BookLiberator is the bent piece of plexi that the cameras attach to. You can get that piece made by almost any plastics shop. Most towns have one for making signs and store displays but if you have none near you there are both traditional and internet-only retailers that take custom orders. All … text/html 2010-07-19T16:10:30-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=help&rev=1279570230&do=diff The BookLiberator software processes collections of images of book pages. This processing currently includes rotating the pages so the text is right-side-up and cropping the images to remove anything that beyond the page itself. The purpose is to reduce the image to just the text, which we can then feed to an OCR engine. Future versions of BookLiberator will also handle OCR and formatting of the resulting text. text/html 2010-07-19T16:49:50-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=ian&rev=1279572590&do=diff Ian Sullivan I'm handling most of the hardware work and am always happy to talk about BookLiberator designs or building issues. Most days I'm on the freenode IRC network in the #bkrpr channel. Feel free to stop by or sent me mail at bkrpr@ this domain. text/html 2010-07-19T16:11:55-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=james&rev=1279570315&do=diff If you are interested in contributing to BookLiberator (perhaps by editing this wiki), drop me a line. My email address is my first name @hackervisions.org. For now, I am doing the software work. I welcome all bug reports, patches and suggestions for how to improve BookLiberator. The best way to contribute to development is via our Launchpad page. text/html 2009-04-02T16:58:27-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=keepingup&rev=1238705907&do=diff In addition to the materials in this wiki we also have: A blog at <http://bkrpr.org/blog> with RSS A flickr account at <http://www.flickr.com/photos/bkrpr/> A youtube account at <http://www.youtube.com/user/bkrpr> A Google Group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bkrpr> text/html 2010-07-20T11:33:27-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=kit&rev=1279640007&do=diff NOTE: this page is not visible to users yet. The prices are just placeholders. The Book Liberator Kit We are distributing the Book Liberator as a kit that can be assembled in about 30 minutes. The Full Kit is available for $350 and includes all of the following: text/html 2010-07-19T16:14:43-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=license&rev=1279570483&do=diff BookLiberator is copyright 2008, 2009 James Vasile. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 3 of the License or later. See GPLv3 or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html> for license text. text/html 2009-10-27T13:36:49-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=otherefforts&rev=1256665009&do=diff We are not the only people doing book digitization. Others efforts include: DIY Book Scanner The DIY Book Scanner project is doing very similar work with very similar parts. If you're looking for alternate designs along the same lines, they're the first place to look. text/html 2010-07-22T10:32:24-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=pressclippings&rev=1279809144&do=diff * Forbes, 19 July 2010 * Good Magazine, 28 January 2010 text/html 2009-02-04T12:05:31-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=releasechecklist&rev=1233767131&do=diff This page contains a list of all the things that must be done to push a release out the door. (Karl, would you add whatever you did for 0.1 to this list?) * Make sure config.license_url points to http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bkrpr/bkrpr/trunk/annotate/nn/LICENSE, where nn is the minor revision number. * Build a tgz with 'make dist' and upload it to Launchpad. text/html 2010-07-19T16:48:02-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=results&rev=1279572482&do=diff In order to make this site easier to load, and cheaper to host, most of our page images are located in our flickr collection. Here are two sample pages (heavily compressed to fit on the page) taken using the non-destructive BookLiberator design and cropped by our software. Next to each page is the text of that page as OCRd by tesseract (slightly squashed by our page layout: text/html 2009-01-16T10:44:43-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=screenshots&rev=1232120683&do=diff Some pics of Bkrpr in action. Startup This is what you see when you start the program. text/html 2010-07-19T16:49:22-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=soc2009&rev=1279572562&do=diff Google Summer of Code, 2009 Background BookLiberator is a suite of free software (and open hardware recipes) that helps students and scholars digitize books and collections of documents. The tools enable individuals to scan and process (rotate, crop, ocr, etc) primary textual sources. text/html 2010-08-16T10:51:08-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=start&rev=1281970268&do=diff This is the home page and the documentation wiki of the BookLiberator project. We also have a blog that contains all the latest BookLiberator news, including information on when kits will be ready for sale. 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 2009-12-13T15:02:07-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=todo&rev=1260734527&do=diff Action items: * Ship existing cube & stand to Toronto (KARL). * Ship 2nd cube & stand to Germany (KARL). * Get Canal Plastics prices for flat plexi planes: 14” x 14” with beveled screw holes drilled in 1/2” from each corner, and the same but with UN-beveled holes. (WINNIE?) text/html 2010-07-19T16:46:52-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=usingpowershota590&rev=1279572412&do=diff Using the Canon PowerShot A590 IS Some notes on camera settings and usage. All settings assume you've set the camera to Manual (M on the mode dial on top of the camera). See especially section on focus. The 8 megapixel Canon PowerShot A590 IS was announced in early 2008 (dpreview.com original presentation, fall 2008 updated review) at $199. In April 2009 the price has fallen below $100. text/html 2010-07-19T16:40:56-04:00 http://bkrpr.org/doku.php?id=youcanhelp&rev=1279572056&do=diff BookLiberator is an ambitious project that is just getting off the ground. We're going to need a lot of people to jump on board if this is going to work. Software There is a list of shallow bugs that can be fixed in short order, even by people who aren't familiar with the BookLiberator codebase. You'll need basic python and gtk skills to play along, but the best way to learn the code is to jump in and fix something simple.