After receiving my iLiad I'm wondering how to get my content into the device: Most books I'm interested in, do not have an ebook version... So I'm thinking about scanning some of my books at home.
Reading some comments in this forum or on the internet, there are a few techniques out there, but none is really "kicking"
My conditions are:
- Non destructive (e.g. I don't want to cut my books in pieces)
- I'm happy with scanned images, so no ORC required
- I don't need high resolution, just be readable on the iLiad
I found several ideas how to do it (beside the really expensive methods which costs you a fortune):
- Using the OpticBook 3600 scanner (still somewhat expensive)
- Using a hand-scanner, e.g. RC800 but I guess this is quite fuzzy?
- Using a normal flat-bed scanner (big books will have problems, because of the book-fold)
- Using my glass table to put the book on and my digital camera underneath
The most cost-sensitive way looks like flat-bed scanner or digi-cam. But of course the produced images need to be post-processed - rotating the slighly misaligned pages, correct the distorted book-fold (see link of OpticBook what I mean here
)
Does anybody know of software to help there? So far I have found
Unpaper but it does not correct the distorted book-fold...
Any ideas?