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Originally Posted by yekim54
Are you saying you can scan 2 pages per second with the Opticbook 3600? According to the Opticbook sales literature: "The OpticBook 3600 plus also has an amazing scanning speed of 9 seconds per page that really shortens the time that need to be scanning a book."
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Doh! I was complaining about bad numbers earlier, and did the same thing myself. 120 pages per
hour, is what I should have said. The mass-market paperback number of 200-300 pages per hour was correct.
The reason the second is faster is partly because the scan is shorter, but mostly because the resolution was halved. It seems that the device is limited more by the digital side of things rather than the physical moving lamp-plus-sensors side. Switching to grayscale, or even worse colour, images slows things down significantly.
It's definitely slower than the DIY camera-based systems. The only advantage I can think of for it is that the images won't be distorted in the way that they will be from the camera. If you're going to OCR the results, then that won't matter much. However, if you want to save the images themselves to the ebook, then the ones from the scanner would probably look a bit better. Personally, as long as the distortion wasn't too bad, I'd probably pick the faster system since scanning a book for hours is a slog.