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Originally Posted by drofgnal
I have a couple of old out of print text books, I'd love to have scanned into PDF. One was out of print when I was a grad student 40 years ago. Is there a service that does this when it doesn't violate copyright?
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If it's really just a couple, and don't involve detailed photos, you can do them yourself. I remember doing one on a very old pnshoot camera way back. Modern phones with fairly decent light setup should be more than capable of surpassing my old efforts. Fix a phone on a firm stand, place a light close to the book, and take a photo of every even page, then do the same for odd pages. After that you process the files a little in image editor and combine them into pdf. It's fairly easy technical process that nets very good results. I'm willing to help if you're completely clueless regarding technical aspects.
Read "Cardboard Scanner" section on this site regarding details. Article is pretty old, but still contains valid information. At least up to step 10. There are easier ways of accomplishing all that's described in that section using modern software.
https://www.diybookscanner.org/en/intro.html
https://www.instructables.com/Bargai...Cardboard-Box/
Just make sure to check
https://archive.org/ before you start, it's possible that
they're up there already.