DIY Book Scanner (Do It Yourself Book Scanner) é um kit que faz o aproveitamento de câmeras digitais em um digitalizador de livros adequado para materiais frágeis, consideravelmente mais barato que máquinas dedicadas vendidas para tal fim. O Internet Archive digitaliza seus livros dessa forma.

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Diretamente da FAQ do archive.org

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https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#Texts_and_Books

How do you do your sponsored scanning for Contributing Libraries?

The Smithsonian Institution shares this video about the scanning Archive.org does to help make more of their Libraries' materials accessible:

Smithsonian Institution Libraries: Creating the Digital Library (video)

One Do It Yourself approach can be found here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-from-Trash-and-Cheap-C/

http://www.instructables.com/id/SGP6LHRFTM72YMN/

This $300 book-scanning machine is somewhat similar to the Scribe machine used by Archive.org, which also uses open source software for processing book images.

The open source image processing software used by Archive.org:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribesw/

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