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Originally Posted by user
thanks for your replies
would it be better to shoot with a film camera, then print the photos from film and then shetfeed the scanner with them?
much more time and cost, but will it be better?
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It would be cheaper, faster and more effective than camera if you took the book to a good photocopy machine. They already output the image on 8.5x11 or A4 paper, already suited for sheetfed scanners, and cost less than photo output to film (or even paper).
If you go this route, use a photocopier with a zoom control. Increase the zoom until your book page literally fills the photocopy image. Then you'll have the largest-possible text images on paper, which will run perfectly through a sheetfed scanner, be easier for the OCR to recognize, and reduce your reco errors.
Copying the book page by page will also be faster than doing the same with a camera, then outputting the camera image.