Bookscanner
Hardware
- Essential scanner demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCfCGPMVyBI
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.