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    • For more information on the book scanning process in general and making your own book scanner please visit:

    DIY Book Scanner and diy scanning community pages: http://diybookscannnner.org

    Memory of the World scanner: http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2012/10/28/our-beloved-bookscanner/

    Other scanner builds: http://wiki.diybookscanner.org/scanner-build-list

    For more information on automation:

    Konrad Voeckel’s post-processing script (From Scan to PDF/A): http://blog.konradvoelkel.de/2013/03/scan-to-pdfa/

    Johannes Baiter’s automation of scanning to PDF process: http://spreads.readthedocs.org

    For more information on applications and tools:

    Calibre e-book library management application: http://calibre-ebook.com/

    ScanTailor: https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced/, http://scantailor.sourceforge.net/

    Gscan2pdf: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gscan2pdf/

    Canon Hack Development Kit firmware: http://chdk.wikia.com

    Tesseract: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/

    Python script of Hacker Space Bruxelles scanner: http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=algolit.git;a=tree;f=scanbot_brussel;h=81facf5cb106a8e4c2a76c048694a3043b158d62;hb=HEAD