Bookscanner

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).

2012

Mark van den Borre establishes diybookscanners.eu. It is a for-profit spinoff of his involvement in the DIYbookscanner.org community. diybookscanners.eu sells book scanners, both as a kit and preassembled.

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.
http://diybookscanner.org

https://github.com/DIYBookScanner/spreadpi
Latest commit 656374c on May 26, 2015

People

Daniel Reetz

http://diybookscanner.org/

Ivo Ielitis

Mark van den Borre

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
Assembly manual: Archivist Scanner by Daniel Reetz http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/
Scanner Kit Assembly: http://tenrec.builders/

Software

Raspberry Pi image tailored for running a DIYBookScanner with the spreads software suite.

Spreads

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

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

Backup Image from our diybookscanner

Feb 2018: We made a backup image of the pi as delivered from Mark vdb...

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 (Daniel Reetz)

Links

http://diybookscanner.org/

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