Today I went to noisebridge and scanned Wonders Through the Microscope and it is now available for download on the freestore! I will likely also generate a color version of the PDF but the book is in black and white so it really doesn't add much.
This is my first attempt at book scanning and post-processing using only open source tools so I thought I'd share this book scanning guide based on my experiences :)
I used the noisebridge book scanner hardware and their python script which remote-controls two DSLR cameras and downloads the photos over USB. It worked very well.
Note that in addition to gphoto2
you will also need jpegtran
. This command will get you both: