Bookscanner

OuNuPo

People

• Daniel

Mark Van den Borre

• http://diybookscanner.eu
• http://github.com/markvdb/
• http://markvdb.be/

Hardware

• Essential scanner demo: VIDEO of Mark Van den Borre demoing the system
• Assembly manual (Mark Van Den Borre EU edition) https://github.com/markvdb/diybookscanner.eu/blob/master/mechanical_assembly.md

Software

CHDK

• CHDK is firmware for canon cameras

Spreads

http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/indexee7f.html?page_id=846

spreads is a tool that aims to streamline your book scanning workflow. It takes care of every step: Setting up your capturing devices, handling the capturing process, downloading the images to your machine, post-processing them and finally assembling a variety of output formats.

Installing spreads: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/spreads

Original image

http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/~aroidl/scannerpi.img.xz

Quotations

It's hard to build things without a manual.