Bookscanner

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

Quotations

It's hard to build things without a manual.