Bookscanned Help Page
I hope everything works for you, however I'm not perfect and there may be problems with the site, your scanner may not want to work correctly, and other stuff can go wrong too. If you can't find the help you need on this page, and think I should help you with it, send me an email at stuporglue@gmail.com and I'll see what I can do.
Help with Bookscanned
Everything is still under construction. We'll start working on help docs when it all settles down.
Help Scanning your books
General Pointers
The basics:
- 300 dpi is plenty. 150 dpi is even good enough.
- I recomend scanning in color, it preserves more charachteristics of the paper.
- Save your images in a lossless format (tif, png) NEVER in jpg/jpeg.
- Use a white background. The OCR engine tries to convert darkness into images
Windows
Start Menu --> Accessories-->Scanner and Camera Wizard
Mac OSX
Application --> Image Capture
Sane backend for more support (download links coming soon).
Linux
Xsane
With a Digital Camera
Yes, it should work, here are some tips:
- Make sure the pages are flat
- Don't use a flash, make sure the ligting on the page is clear and even
Help Uploading
You'll need to accept the signed Java applet. Scanned files are often too large to upload any other way. The Java applet was created and signed by Simon Rycroft.
Account Recovery
If you forgot your password, please visit the Password Recovery page. We don't know what your password was, but we can send you a link which will allow you to reset it yourself.