bookscan
spreads
bookscan | spreads | |
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1 | 1 | |
15 | 116 | |
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0.0 | 0.0 | |
almost 8 years ago | about 8 years ago | |
Shell | Python | |
- | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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bookscan
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DIY Book Scanner
Right, step 1 -> get page images, step 2 -> author images into book file. While OCR is obviously useful for search, a rotated phone screen will let you comfortably read a pdf book just fine unless you are talking about something like a textbook, in which case you probably wanted a tablet anyway.
I wrote up a guide on the authoring process using FOSS tools for some Digital Humanities folks a couple years ago: https://github.com/wikey/bookscan
It gives some background on the problem and covers a Scantailor (page crop, rotate, deskew), pdfbeads (compression, book metadata) authoring workflow, with pdftk for some general odds and ends.
spreads
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DIY Book Scanner
Spreads[0] is probably what you are referring to. Some backstory:
I saw the diybookscanner community - which at that point mostly had Daniel Reetz [1] as its active contributor- struggle with mechanical contraptions for triggering cameras and very little software experience. I built a simple proof of concept to reliably trigger cheap consumer cameras using software. I built it on CHDK[2], the Canon Hack Development Kit, alternative firmware for cheap consumer cameras. The proof of concept worked.
I then had a fairly large number of book scanner kits built and shipped mostly around the EU [3]. More of a work of love than a business really, even if it was formally under an llc umbrella. Johannes initially was just a customer. He wanted to build a better software solution, and within the spirit of the project did so as free software. I tried to support him at this as well as I could, setting up build infrastructure, trying to reel in more people, getting him some cameras to test, get the amazing CHDK people to port to new camera models, ...
Then real life intervened indeed.
Johannes, if you read this, I'm still grateful for the experience of having worked with a great developer like you!
[0] https://github.com/DIYBookScanner/spreads
What are some alternatives?
scantailor-advanced - ScanTailor Advanced is the version that merges the features of the ScanTailor Featured and ScanTailor Enhanced versions, brings new ones and fixes.
scantailor-universal - ScanTailor Universal - a fork based on Enhanced+Featured+Master versions of ST
pi-scan - Pi Scan is a simple, robust capture appliance for book scanners. It runs on a Raspberry Pi 2.