Quickstart

First, make sure you have installed all of the requirements (see below). Once this is done, spreads can be easily installed from PyPi:

$ pip install spreads

To select your desired plugins and configure your devices:

$ spread configure

spreads offers an interactive wizard that takes you from a physical book to a digitized version in one single workflow with minimal user input:

$ spread wizard ~/my_scanning_project

Features

• Shoot with both cameras simultaneously, directly storing the images in a single directory on your computer in the right order.

• Automatically rotate the images and optionally adjust the white balance (if a gray card has been used during shooting).

• Create a ScanTailor project file that the user can customize as desired.

• Generate PDF and DJVU files with hidden text layers

• Interactive Wizard-Mode that handles the full workflow from image capturing to post-processing, either from the command-line or via graphical interface.

Requirements

• Python 2.7 with pip installed

• libusb with headers installed

• exiftool

• An up-to date version of ScanTailor-enhanced

Optional: * For the GUI: PySide * For CHDK cameras: An up-to-date version of chdkptp * For the ScanTailor plugin: ScanTailor-enhanced * For PDF output: pdfbeads * For DJVU output: djvubind * For OCR: tesseract

Documentation

More documentation is available on readthedocs