If you are tinkering with a book scanner (or any other project) in your home shop, these tips will come in handy..

Here at home I use my desk top computer with ABBYY Fine Reader to convert my scans to text.

However, I will be taking my lap top to the Faire, and I dont want to buy Fine Reader for the small amount of time I will be using it.

Any body got any good suggestions Thanks in advance, I figure I will get some good advice.

Backstory: I am planning on taking my scanner to the Tulsa Maker Faire in late August.

Have you checked the ABBYY FineReader licence Im sure it used to allow installation on two devices, when people commonly had a desktop and a laptop, but that may not still be the case.

Alternatively, you might be able to temporarily uninstall it on your desktop, and then install it temporarily on your laptop, a bit of a pain perhaps but possibly a solution.

There a limit of three pages but that should be OK for the fair.

I want to show people that they can get started without a large outlay.

I am even planning to build a cardboard scanner, with a phone for a camera, just to show how simply you can get started.

If anything new and materially useful is found by anyone, pls add to that thread.

The show will be the last Saturday in August, so I am preparing now.

That way I wont have a rush at the last minute to get everything together, and wont go off without something I need.

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