Thread: OpticBook 3600 Book Scanner Review - Part I
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Old 02-09-2007, 09:01 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by valkyriesound
Very cool... I like all the detail...

I'd like to know how long it really takes to scan a page.... including the preview time and scan time. Do you have to preview each page or can you set the book in the same place and have it just go straight to a scan?

Also... can you try a comic and tell use if you notice anything amiss?

Thanks!
The preview is optional and only really gets used when setting up the page size and scan parameters. Once you set it, there's no more need to preview.

One advantage of doing scanning one page at a time with the book hanging over the edge is that you naturally put the book in the same place each time. It almost "has to be" in the same place. (As opposed to a two-page scan on a flatbed, which I assume works more like a copier, and requires you to pay a bit more attention to where the book lays if you want it to be consistent.)

I don't have any comics to try, but I think this would be a great scanner for comic books or manga. Assuming there is still just a little bit of margin near the binding in a comic book or manga, I think this device would be great. From the scans I've seen, I am confident the content would look good. If you want to OCR the comics, though, that would be a different matter and might not work very well.
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