The BookLiberator Project

This is the home page and the documentation wiki of BookLiberator.

BookLiberator is a set of free software and hardware to digitize books: it lets you photograph all the pages in a book without harming the book. The resulting images can be processed with free, open source software to make user-friendly files in a variety of formats.

Note: this project recently changed its name to “BookLiberator” (from “Bkrpr”). We're still updating old links, file names, etc. Please be patient, and feel free to make a name update yourself wherever you're able to.

From book to ebook, it is BookLiberator's goal to make every step as simple as possible.

We have download instructions for the BookLiberator software. The HardwarePlans continue to go up, with additional building instructions available in our flickr stream and specific HowTo information over on instructables.

You can keep up with the latest BookLiberator news on our blog or via RSS. Alternatively, you can read or join our google group and follow along with the discussion of everything we're doing here.

We're putting together help for the software and we've started a FAQ. Check out the index at the bottom of the page for more documentation related pages.

There are now screenshots of the software and actual results pictures so you can judge quality for yourself.

There are a number of ways YouCanHelp! We need devs, documentarians, and testers. If you would like to improve these pages, jump right in and ContributeToThisWiki. If you want to discuss BookLiberator or how you might help, drop a line to Ian, James or Karl.

We're not the only game in town. There are OtherEfforts.

View a video of the BookLiberator in action here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjRKeHPRa2k

Other demonstration materials can be found at DemoMaterials