DIY Book Scanner

Robert B on March 7th, 2010

I’ve been working with genetic programming on and off since the early 90′s. I haven’t done anything with respect to research, but I have played with GP for various problems. Occasionally I’ve played with image processing in GP, and recently I’ve gotten interested in applying GP to the DIY Book Scanner dewarp problem. I don’t [...]

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Robert B on February 27th, 2010

So as I said a while back, one of the major issues with books images from cameras is that the pages are not flat. The ideal dewarper would correct for keystoning (where the margins of the page are not perfectly rectangular) and curling (where the individual text lines are not straight). I did eventually come [...]

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Robert B on December 1st, 2009

“The first five guys to sign up were two mechanical engineers, two software developers, and an intellectual property lawyer.” —Dan Reetz, speaking about the diybookscanner.org forum at the New York Law School D is for Digitize conference, October 9, 2009 I personally scan the books I bought because I’m tired of thousands of them cluttering up [...]

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