Hi all,
I've got to scan a whole collection of books (a couple of hundred at least)
and was wondering if anyone has any experience with those that do/don't
work with Linux or know of another way I can scan the books?
A loan of one would be good, if possible.
Regards,
Patrick
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SLUG - Sydney
Do you want to buy a Brother Scanner with a network
interface?
Some scanners have text reading.
The mastersource for OCR is on Sourceforge. Can't
remember the packages name. Maybe Ubuntu has an
OCR package. I would be surprised if it didn't work.
Modern scanners have PDF scan, like the advert
On 16/04/12 11:45, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote:
Hi all,
I've got to scan a whole collection of books (a couple of hundred at least)
and was wondering if anyone has any experience with those that do/don't
work with Linux or know of another way I can scan the books?
If you've got a smart phone
Or a web cam. There's quite a few apps for pc (maybe even linux) that will scan
all types of barcodes.
Sent from my Android
- Reply message -
From: David Gillies da...@dorja.com
To: slug@slug.org.au
Subject: [SLUG] Bar Code scanners
Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 12:05 pm
On 16/04/12 11:45,
You could us an app with a camera, but you'll find it generally slow and
not so reliable. Most barcode scanners act as normal input devices so work
fine in Linux.
Have a look at www.dealextreme.com for barcode readers. I have this one -
I'm in the same situation wrt books and scanners.
I want to make/use some kind of library software with some kind of isbn
lookup.
Any pointers on where to start with it all?
On 16/04/12 11:45, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote:
Hi all,
I've got to scan a whole collection of books (a couple of
I think the OP wants to scan actual books, not barcodes?
This might help:
http://www.danielstender.com/granthinam/564/
- Gonzalo
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Menno Schaaf amano.gi...@gmail.comwrote:
You could us an app with a camera, but you'll find it generally slow and
not so
Oh it'd be nice if it integrated with some kind of android app so i can
browse my library and check in/out books easily.
On 16/04/12 13:01, Jake Anderson wrote:
I'm in the same situation wrt books and scanners.
I want to make/use some kind of library software with some kind of
isbn lookup.
I'm not sure about that.
The subject of the original post seems to suggest Patrick is interested in
scanning bar codes as opposed to whole books.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Gonzalo Servat gser...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the OP wants to scan actual books, not barcodes?
This might help:
Yeah, good point. I was looking at the original email and the first reply
from David, then it switched to barcode scanning so it confused me a bit.
- Gonzalo
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.comwrote:
I'm not sure about that.
The subject of the original post
You have an Android phone, right?
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/android-barcode-scanner/
That page has 6 lines of python that read the URL - but 2 of those are
turning it into a url and looking up the book on Google Books. All you want
to do is record the barcode, so you'll want to tweak that a
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 01:45:59PM +1200, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote:
I've got to scan a whole collection of books (a couple of hundred at least)
and was wondering if anyone has any experience with those that do/don't
work with Linux or know of another way I can scan the books?
I have a
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