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Originally Posted by joehunt
I usually pay a few pennies for the book, plus $3.99 shipping. The books I purchase range from 300-400 pages, so scanning normally costs $9 - $12 (including Amazon direct and OCR). I currently only average about 1 book a month, so to me the price is fair. If I wanted to digitize hundreds of books, I would look for a different solution.
I run them through Abbyy to convert the pdf to html, which makes conversion to epub/mobi very easy and clean. The pdf from 1dollarscan does include page numbers and book/chapter titles, but Abbyy removes them.
The books are not returned - they are taken apart before scanning and destroyed afterwards.
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Thanks for sharing your experience, Joehunt. What exactly is Amazon direct? Is that a reference to KDP?
I guess I could just use Adobe Pro to convert to HTML, though I don't remember seeing an automated way to remove footers and headers. Does Abby have a simple or automated way to do this?
Also, I though they send you the book back, just spineless and loose.