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Re:Show HN: Create a papercraft book from any ISBN – experim... by AlexMuir on Sunday March 22, 2015 @05:37PM (#9248362)
I like that idea. Sadly no-one seems to have a database of images of the spines of books. All I'm doing at the moment is pulling the color at (x:5,y:5) from the cover image and using that for the spine. It's not exact but good enough. I think pick either white or black text depending on the color saturation. It's OK in this situation but for generating a poster it'd need to be a lot more refined.
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Re:Show HN: Create a papercraft book from any ISBN – experim... by joelennon on Sunday March 22, 2015 @07:09PM (#9248644)
BitLit is a company that allows you to upload a "shelfie" of your books and they will recognise the books from their spines. So don't give up hope on that image database, it must exist. Nice work, looks like an interesting project.

http://www.bitlit.com/how-it-works/

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