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Re:DIY Book Scanner by BeetleB on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:08PM (#27364353)
Actually, it was a project called Paper Upgrade. Here is an old archive link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140101000000*/http://www.paperu...

I don't know if you can find the code through there, but I'm pretty sure he had made it free. I think spreads is a bit newer.

Edit: Found some more info. It did indeed use Scantailor in the backend. His SW was more of a Web based frontend to all the parts. You can see a video demo of it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad7aFYdbDos

Start at about 4:40.

The source is here:

https://code.google.com/archive/p/diy-ebook-creator/

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Re:DIY Book Scanner by daniel_reetz on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:53PM (#27364642)
Paper Upgrade was an awesome project and the author changed my life. I met my future wife on the plane while flying to visit him and donate a book scanner.
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Re:DIY Book Scanner by BeetleB on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @12:31AM (#27364866)
Wow. He spoke highly of you when I met him. My guess is you had not yet married, though - it was shortly after your visit - perhaps a month or two.

And yes, Paper Upgrade was awesome (especially if he did all the work on it). I was sad to hear he had shut it down.

Oh, and I'll make a note to myself never to work for Apple ;-)

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