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I have a collection of old, somewhat tatty, but rather collectible paperback books. I also have a nerdy compulsion to digitize this stuff so I don't have to damage my precious books by actually, you know, touching them when I want to read them. What kind of scanner would you recommend I could use to digitize these? Things that I care about: - Safety of the book. Flatbed scanners mean I have to squash the book to get a good scan, which I want to avoid. I'm thinking maybe some sort of handheld scanner? - Cost. I think there are awesome triangular book scanners out there but they cost a fortune(?) - Speed. There are a lot of pages to get through, so I don't want to have to spend 30 seconds on each one. This extends to the ease of saving the scan afterwards without a ton of picture editing. - Quality of scan needs to be decent but not outrageous Things I don't really care about: - Wireless. I don't care either way if it's wireless or wired, I just don't want to pay extra for wireless functionality. Generally I actually prefer wired since it won't run out of battery/charge. - OCR. Not sure if this is even a thing, but I actually want the scans to look exactly like the book, not to be converted to a machine-readable format or something. I've got no experience with this, so does anyone have any suggestons for what hardware would be best for this?
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Aug 30, 2018 01:34
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I have this http://www.irislink.com/EN-US/c1657/IRIScan---Portable-scanners---Discover-our-range.aspx The results vary (particularly due to curvature of the pages), especially around the center of the books. It's also not the fastest way to scan. Sadly, I Don't think there are much better options, other than a proper triangle scanner (there are some dyi tutorials to build them yourself though).
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Aug 30, 2018 02:41
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Photos are faster than scanners and will tend to require less unfolding of the book. Professional fast book content scanners use cameras and a frame and good lighting conditions, not scanners. (Though they do this for OCR, not with the intent to keep the image as an image.)
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Aug 30, 2018 02:42
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If you do this, please consider making the scans of rare/out-of-print books available online to the public (where copyright law allows, I am not a lawyer, I just love books, thank you good night)
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Aug 30, 2018 16:11
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Try some very good lighting, a tripod, and a good quality phone camera with something like Office Lens
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