Bookscanner
The DIY Book Scanner is a project of the Noisebridge Digital Archivists group. It's based on the open-source DIY Book Scanner Kit designed by Daniel Reetz.
Here's the scanner first being assembled:
The completed scanner ready to scan:
Lighting
The original LED light was replaced with a larger LED array. To avoid glare, the array is mounted perpendicularly so the long side is parallel with the spine of the book.
Cameras
We use two Canon cameras connected with USB to a computer and remote-controlled with the gphoto2 library. The pictures are transferred to the computer as soon as they are taken, rather than stored on an SD card.
Trigger
The cameras are triggered by a button mounted next to the handle on the scanner. The button is connected to a circuit board from a USB keyboard, so it behaves like pressing the "enter" key on the computer.