New Laptop

Very cool. Saving a book sounds incredibly labor intensive. Must be love. You say you are learning to live with Windows, were you a Mac guy? Linux guy? How big is the hard drive? I remember when 9 gab was big.

Originally Posted by t00nces2

Very cool. Saving a book sounds incredibly labor intensive. Must be love. You say you are learning to live with Windows, were you a Mac guy? Linux guy? How big is the hard drive? I remember when 9 gab was big.

Early 90's Red Hat, last 6/7 Unbuntu but that will change to one of the RPM based Linux's.

Hard drive is 500 gig, no need for more as excess data gets uploaded onto the cloud or local thumb.

Scanning is more than a labor of love $$$, had not scanned any material for the past 5 years. The flatbed was very slow and you had to destroy larger books by cutting the spine.

The Czur has three lasers to detect the curvature of the pages being scanned then makes a digital correction before saving the image.

I sell some of my digital works, just search evilbay for tractor manuals. How many sellers offer digital delivery and how many offer reprints.

First image raw scan 164 Kb, after running the document through OCR background noise removed, reduced to 37Kb

Originally Posted by alloy2

Asus Rog Strix, Intel i7 eight core, 144Mhz graphics, 32 gigs of ram with a solid state hard drive, preloaded with windows which I'm learning to live with.

I also purchased the Czur Et-18 book and document scanner.

I often find old car, truck, tractor and other manuals of interest which have become mildewed, dogeared or just plain ratty. Digitizing them preserves history.

Cool! I would like to buy it. Need to earn more money. Btw how much is that?