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Originally Posted by Karellen
I had always assumed the books were torn apart and fed through a sheet feeder.
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Traditional pirates because they don't care about the original and it's mostly ARCs or new copies. They still do it that way. The pirates use a guillotine that's sold to trim books to accurately cut the spline off. They don't tear them apart.
Big official outfits have used page turning and cameras for years and avoid opening the books too far. The camera and lighting part is cheap enough; the page turner is more expensive.
Google is breaking copyright but they lobbied to win a US court case on it. They claim to only make a "fair use" amount available online though they store the entire book and OCR for search on servers on the internet.
Google and Microsoft supply the Internet Archive with copies. The Internet Archive has also been scanning copyright material for about 20 years. They don't pay for content in their Open Library.