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BookBrowser is a full solution for book digitalisation. The desktop application provides an interface to digitise a book using any scanner device, an interface to manage a digitised book library and an interface to read digitised books on screen.
BookBrowser can be used to archive any paper documents to a numerical support or simply transform some kilo of papers to Go of space disks.
BookBrowser is multi-platforms and features:
- A digitised book library showing book covers
- A scanner interface similar to XSane and featuring a timer to estimate the scan process time (supports SANE and WIA)
- A book metadata editor to define title etc.
- A pane showing page thumbnails
- A page viewer which permits to navigate, zoom and fix page orientation
- Pages can be converted to text using the Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine
- supports Free Desktop Thumbnail
Implementation details:
BookBrowser is written in Python and the user interface is based on the Qt framework. BookBrowser can thus run on desktop platform like Linux, OSX and Windows, as well as on some embedded devices.
The documentation is available on the BookBrowser Home Page.
Look at the installation section in the documentation.
Authors: Fabrice Salvaire
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