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The first book I converted was an old late 1950s paperback with yellowing pages and glue falling into dust for the binding. All bound edges were clean cut to remove traces of the glue and the rough edges. The pages were not smooth surfaced and quite rough as many paperbacks were in those days. There were only about 2 misfeeds for the whole book. As you noted I then had to rearrange the pages manually. This only took about 20 minutes.
Since then I have scanned other books (I wait until I need a rubber band around the book to hold it together) and the higher quality paper does scan and OCR better. Magizines (and any thin clay coated stock) will not feed and must be done on a page-by-page basis.
From examination in the stores it seems to me that there is little difference between the feeders other than the duplexing as you increase in price from one model from a company to another. I suspect that it is cheaper for the companies to offer a standard unit rather than a unique unit for each model.
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