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Originally Posted by kevinp
It depends on whether you're willing to destroy the book to scan it also. If you cut the spine off the book, you can run it through a desktop scanner with a page feeder that will do duplex.
I've scanned a few books without destroying them. I can set my scanner to automatically keep scanning with a pause time in between scans of two seconds. That's enough time for me to turn the page and put the book back down on the scanner. This way takes more time obviously, but it doesn't ruin the book.
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Interesting feature. I've used ABBYY Fine Reader with an HP DeskJet 3070A to scan some Japanese books into PDF/A format. It has worked surprisingly well, and those books are now searchable and it is easy to do annotations in Adobe Reader. However, I have to click for each spread (folio? two pages), it probably doesn't take more than two seconds anyway, but being essentially lazy that feature is appealing. How do you take a break with that method?