I'm sorry to start out my carreer as a forum member here (long time lurker) with a bit of a pessimistic post, but here goes.
First of all – I have boundless respect and admiration for the guys developing SpreadPi and Spreads, I think you're doing revolutionizing work here and I can't thank you enough for that.
About six months ago I jumped the gun and bought a kit from DiyBookscanner.eu. It took a bit of time to built but around a month later I had finally put it all together. But ever since then (for 5 months) I have been struggling to make the software part function properly. I have tried just about every suggestion and both a v1 and v2 Pi – I've had the helpful guys at diybookscanner.eu help me reflash the pi with a fresh installation, I tried my own hand at installing the thing many, many times as well. And yet here I am, 5 months later and still no success and to be honest I've kind of lost hope in the thing. Everyone else seems to make the thing work on here/on Github and I guess this is just a post to hear some success stories/confirmation that this wasn't a crazy waste of money/time. Is it possible – is there light at the end of the tunnel?

Oh – and thanks to the guys on Github for answering some of my questions/issues on there.
Best regards