{"id":137601,"date":"2026-08-10T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=137601"},"modified":"2026-08-23T12:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:44:22","slug":"monday-night-scanning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2026\/08\/10\/monday-night-scanning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night – scanning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today was a busy day around the house.. I did finish up on a project I was working on..\u00a0 \u00a0Here’s what I wrote about it on our company ‘show and tell’ channel\u00a0

“I just did a project around the crazy kids thermal printer camera I always cary. they are about\u00a0 $30 and record really grainy b\/w imaged on thermal receipt paper. Here’s the one I have<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of things I love about these cameras is that they print on a roll of really cheap thermal paper.. .. you can go to an event and shoot all day and end up with a roll of grainy pictures that document the whole event. .

The thing is, you end up with hundreds of these pictures that are too good to through away. and not good enough to do anything else with..

So.. I bought an obsolete NEET receipt scanner on Ebay for $20. The company no longer supports them, but I figured I could hack it to do what I wanted. Thanks to help from Claude, I found\u00a0 drivers for the NEET.. then wrote code to read in the rolls of printouts, detect the frames, straighten them , and upload them to google drive.\u00a0 I scanned several hundred\u00a0 pics from Hackclub hackathon events, weddings, burning\u00a0 man Fluffy art car events etc.. You can see them here<\/a><\/span> .\u00a0 Code is here<\/a><\/span>

I still have the limitation that I need to cut the strips into 9 images or so to get them to scan. I’m still working on getting the full continuous\u00a0 scan working which\u00a0 I can do once I figure out the how to start and stop the scanner with finer control..

the pictures look like\u00a0 this.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So thats what I was up to part of today

nite all. nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was a busy day around the house.. I did finish up on a project I was working on..\u00a0 \u00a0Here’s what I wrote about it on our company ‘show and tell’ channel\u00a0 “I just did a project around the crazy kids thermal printer camera I always cary. they are about\u00a0 $30 and record really grainy … Continue reading Monday night – scanning<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137713,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137601\/revisions\/137713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}