[sudo-discuss] bookscanner in bay area?

[Maximilian Klein]

Last time I went to Ace Monster Toys they had an operational bookscanner:

http://acemonstertoys.org/content/amt-book-scanner-complete


Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> someone came to IRC asking if we had a bookscanner, because they are
> visually impaired and need to read some books after scanning them.
>
> here is what they said in IRC.  I don't know how to contact them but I
> think we should prioritize making a working bookscanner, or at least a
> regular scanner, at sudoroom, and putting mention of it on our website in
> an easily read way.  Our site is not the best for visually impaired people
> to read, so we should keep that in mind when making changes.
>
> also i am pleased to say that the robot arm has volunteered to help with
> any bookscanning efforts, if we have a scanner and book that we are willing
> to sacrifice in the name of training it to be gentle.
>
> we can easily attach vacuum and air-blowing nozzles onto its hand, and it
> can wield a flatbed scanner and place it onto the pages of the books, given
> sufficient software intelligence and programming.
>
> -jake
>
> 10:10 < jacques_> Hey, I have a reading disability and am looking for
>                   access to a book scanner this week and
>                   interested in working with book scanner hardware
>                   and software with my local hackerspaces long
>                   term. The scanners at noisebride and AMT are taken
>                   apart currently and the book scanning
>                   service at the digital archive only converts to
>                   daisy as I understand it.  I need to scan 2
>                   250 page hardback books to text or PDF-text to be
>                   able to do text-t[o speech conversion]
> 10:10 < jacques_> Do you have a book scanner or do you know where I can
>                   accomplish this locally?  I am a professional AV tech
>                   with lots of video, audio, arts, books and DIY
>                   experience.
> 10:22 < yar> jacques_: i don't think we have a book scanner. if we do,
>                   it's definitely not well-documented or operational.
> 10:31 < jacques_> Who would you ask if you were  trying to quickly find a
>                   book scanner in the Bay Area?
> 10:32 < yar> idk, noisebridge's scanners may be taken apart but they still
>                   have a "digitalarchivist" email list
>                   where i've seen some activity recently
> 10:33 < yar> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/
> digitalarchivists
> 10:34 < yar> oh wait that most recent email is probably from you, huh? :)
> 10:45 < jacques_> yes...(sigh) lots of discussion for this half-blind
>                   half-deaf half-wit
> 10:45 < jacques_> but no scanno
> 11:00 < jacques_> sorry for that moment of self-pity. I am unable to read
>                   books except with audio and am part of
>                   an important campaign I need to ead a book by the 2
>                   authors for short promo
>                   http://youtu.be/CsJVwxwYhag a breif promo
> 11:04 < jacques_> without capital-ism, we would not need to have this
>                   conversation because copy-right would not
>                   have technology, books and all ideas locked up
> 11:33 < jacques_> called 3 tech shops techshop.ws for-profit hackerspaces
>                   but still cannot locate in perhaps the
>                   technology center of the solarsystem the proverbila
>                   bookscanner which in theory are becomming
>                   avilable in all hackerspaces globally
> 11:33 < jacques_> diybookscanner.org
>
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