https://orner.com/tags/books/Recent content in Books on Lance OrnerHugoen-usTue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://orner.com/posts/scan-book-with-video/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://orner.com/posts/scan-book-with-video/<p>Yes, you can scan an old, bound book by simply shooting a high-resolution video of yourself turning its pages, then doing some post-processing with OCR and AI to digitize it: one Markdown text file of all the content, with the photographs captured, deskewed and linked. It doesn&rsquo;t require any special hardware.</p> <p>I do have the source code, written with Claude Code, that does all of this. You could probably make the same project by giving this article as a prompt. I&rsquo;m not trying to add to the half-baked code repos we&rsquo;re all seeing on Hacker News and other sites.</p>