My wife's hobby is scrapbooking. Over the years she's assembled nearly 20 phonebook sized albums with carefully curated photos arranged on the fancy paper with borders, annotations, etc.
Since we move relatively frequently now, these albums all live in my parents' house, but it's a shame to not have access to them. Our kids, for example, really like looking through the albums of mom and dad (us) before kids, them as babies, etc.
Anyway, I want to digitize the albums, but not use a flatbed scanner. I've got a nice tripod and camera. I could setup a rig over the books and take pictures page by page--maybe on a lazy susan so the camera stays put but the book spins to capture each half of the book?--but I'm lost on how to process the pictures later. I'd need to rotate half the pictures 180deg, crop all the pictures done to page size, and then I'd want some kind of software that could digitally "bind" the pages so I could flip through them like an e-flyer you get in your email.
Anyone gone through this exercise and can give some suggestions on how to get going?
Since we move relatively frequently now, these albums all live in my parents' house, but it's a shame to not have access to them. Our kids, for example, really like looking through the albums of mom and dad (us) before kids, them as babies, etc.
Anyway, I want to digitize the albums, but not use a flatbed scanner. I've got a nice tripod and camera. I could setup a rig over the books and take pictures page by page--maybe on a lazy susan so the camera stays put but the book spins to capture each half of the book?--but I'm lost on how to process the pictures later. I'd need to rotate half the pictures 180deg, crop all the pictures done to page size, and then I'd want some kind of software that could digitally "bind" the pages so I could flip through them like an e-flyer you get in your email.
Anyone gone through this exercise and can give some suggestions on how to get going?
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