This is a small web-based application to manager book scanning projects :
- creating a project for each book
- naming the book, its author, editor, isbn etc.
- scanning using 2 canon CHDK-compliant camera
- cropping and rotating using imagemagick and gd
- creating a PDF using imagemagick
everything is PHP and BASH based, no database, projects are simple folder. See DESCRIPTION
License: GPL v3+, (C) 2012-2013 Benjamin Sonntag
on Debian GNU/Linux, or Ubuntu, install a webserver with php :
aptitude install libapache2-mod-php5 apache2-mpm-prefork gphoto2
deploy this source code into /var/www/
cd /var/www git clone https://github.com/vincib/bookscanner-project-manager.git
change /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default to point into /var/www/www
DocumentRoot /var/www/www
edit /var/www/www/config_sample.php and save it into config.php
if necessary, download and compile ptpcam, put a copy of it into /var/www/sh/
go to http://localhost/ or http://yourmachinename/ to see the project manager.
Note: you will need to launch identify.php and generate.php perdiodically: they generate the thumbnails and the image pdf of the book. (ideally launch them at boottime in a shell loop like "while true ; do php identify.php ; sleep 30 ; done")
We use this program at the French Bookscanner at La Quadrature du Net's location. Our website is at http://www.bookscanner.fr/
We are using the model created by Dan Reetz, available and discussed at http://www.diybookscanner.org/
You can buy one to build yourself if you live in Europe at http://www.diybookscanner.eu/
Use gsettings to prevent automount of cameras by your window manager
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount "false" gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount-open "false"