SpreadPi: The new DIY Book Scanner control system.

Johannes Baiter's Spreads and SpreadPi are the latest control systems and postprocessors for DIY scanning. http://spreads.readthedocs.org

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SpreadPi: The new DIY Book Scanner control system.

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I'm extremely proud to show you this preview of what might be the biggest thing to happen to DIY Book Scanning since the advent of cheap cameras: Johannes Baiter's SpreadPi.



If you're interested in trying this out, you will need a Raspberry Pi and Canon Powershot A2200 or Powershot A1400IS cameras. We're looking for someone skilled in Python to write an interface for other cameras, detailed here.
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Great video Daniel, thank you so much for taking the time :-)

Just two minor remarks:
  • The main repository for spreads is DIYBookScanner/spreads, not jbaiter/spreads. The latter has not been updated in quite a while
  • The time between the triggering of a capture and the display of the view images in the application can be greatly reduced by using a faster SD-Card in the Raspberry Pi. I myself use a Class10 card that achives ~20mb/s and while it's still not instantaneous, it matches my scanning speed (~1400 pages/hour) quite well so I don't have to wait for review images before triggering another shot.
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Thanks, jbaiter, should have cleared it with you first. I'll make some comments on the YT video in the next day or so to be sure people understand.
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Thank you for announcing this work. I look forward to using it.
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Hi!

I take care of the raspberry pi build (spreadpi) and the http://buildbot.diybookscanner.eu build infrastructure. Any issues with those, don't hesitate to contact me.

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This is so fantastic. I've been daydreaming about the potential for Raspberry Pi + Spreads + DIY Scanner, and you guys went ahead and did it! I just picked up two A1400s and I'll let you know how it goes.

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Great news! FYI the buildbot is being repaired right now- be sure to check in when you get your stuff and we'll get you the latest image.
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This is so cool! I have not been able to get a fast enough SD card yet but will test as soon as I get one :)
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OK, I have all the requisite pieces, but the "latest image" link is still broken. I grabbed the most recent image from buildbot (Apr 24) to play with, but if you have a more recent one, that would be great.

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Hi,

The latest one (April 24) has some problems that I am still investigating. I fixed this temporarily for you by pointing spreadpi_latest.img.gz to an older build.

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