Thanks for the review. I am eager to read the second part.
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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
So why would anyone be interested in a book scanner anyway? The obvious reason is to convert paper books that you would like to store and/or read in electronic form. While there are limits due to copyright law, it is amazing how many books and materials are worthy of conversion that are either personally owned, or in the public domain. And a surprising side benefit of having a scanner around is that it is also very useful for general document scanning. It can be convenient for creating an electronic version of paper documents for record keeping or archiving. Common targets include photo scans, receipts, handwritten notes and many more of the multitude of paper documents that surround us. And it is obviously also capable of being used to make paper copies in conjunction with your computer's printer.
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Only to note - if you would like to get an electronic version of a document and you do not have a scanner, a good sollution is to use your digital camera.
It looks ugly at first, but it is not as bad as it looks. If you take it with the largest focal length you can have (maximum zoom), you end up with a rather good result with most of today's cameras - even the simple point-n-shoots.
We have only Minolta Dimage X50, which is an ultra-compact, and I have been using it to archive various important documents in electronic version until now and I am quite satisfied.
Of course, at least for now, there can't be any talk of OCR, but in the years to come - who knows.