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Old 10-19-2007, 06:30 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by RWood View Post
There was a thread by Bob Russell about a scanner that was designed for bound books and had them over the corner of the scanner so a page would lie flat. It seemed to work well. I will look again for the article.
This is the Opticbook 3600. I have one and it does a great job with scanning. The edge of the glass is almost at the very edge of the scanner, so except for too-tightly bound (or usually, ime, rebound) books, it does a beautiful job of capturing all the text.

Any flatbed scanner is going to take longer to scan than an overhead setup like ereszet's (which is a setup I'm trying to recreate myself for a large book I have), but the Opticbook is the best out there as far as I've found for a low-cost flatbed solution.
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