Bookscanner

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Timeline

2009

In 2009, Daniel Reetz published a tutorial on how to make a book scanner from cheap cameras and trash. His initial tutorial touched off a firestorm of interest and launched this community (http://diybookscanner.org).

2015

In 2015, Daniel retired from the project, but the community (http://diybookscanner.org) lives on. We are still producing new designs and new software. Step by step we are making it easier for anyone around the world to produce high quality scans of the history they hold most dear.

People

Daniel Reetz

• http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/

Mark Van den Borre

• http://diybookscanner.eu
• http://github.com/markvdb/
• http://markvdb.be/
• http://blog.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
• Design of parts of the scanner

Software

CHDK

• CHDK is firmware for canon cameras
• https://github.com/markvdb/diybookscanner/blob/master/misc/settings.md

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.

https://github.com/DIYBookScanner/spreadpi

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. (Natasha)

Five years ago we built our first book scanner from salvage and scrap. Book digitization was the domain of giants — Microsoft and Google. Commercial book scanners cost as much as a small car. Unless you chose to destroy your books in sheet-feed or flatbed scanners, there was no safe and affordable way to preserve the contents of your bookshelf on your e-reader.

Collectively, we tried to fix that. Over 2,000 people contributed more than 350 designs and thousands of lines of code at diybookscanner.org.

The result is the Archivist — the VW Beetle of book scanners — cheap, durable, and tremendously effective. It’s open source and made with the simplest materials possible, like plywood, bungees, and skateboard bearings

Links

http://diybookscanner.org/

http://diybookscanner.org/ Jonathon Duerig and Scann
http://lusis.eu/ company of Marc