Bangkok Recorder Now Online

This project has now been in progress (on and off) for four years during which time I’ve moved home four times across two continents, changed job multiple times and learned to play two more musical instruments (albeit not very well). It’s no wonder it’s taken so long to reach this first big milestone.

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Treatise on Vaccination

Smallpox was rife throughout Siam and returned every year, affecting much of the population – Dr Bradley himself lost a daughter to it. He worked on a vaccination and documented his efforts in his treatise of 1844.

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Current Project Status

Although this blog has been silent for a few months, progress has continued as time permits. This article gives a summary update of the current status.

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Homemade Book Scanner

A few of the books I’ve collected are very old, fragile and can’t be digitised on either a normal flatbed scanner or flatbed book scanner without damaging them. So, I’ve built a camera-based book scanner.

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Programmatically Cleaning Document Scans, Part 2

The first article on this topic introduced basic automation techniques for cleaning document scans. This article builds on those foundations by introducing more advanced topics for background removal, frame removal and rotation correction.

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