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Originally Posted by igorsk
There are two kinds of flatbed scanners.
Contact Image Sensor (CIS) ones are usually cheaper since they mount sensors directly on the scan head. That gets rid of some optics but results in what you describe: anything that's more than two millimeters away from the glass is basically not registered.
Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) scanners use some optics to direct the image from the head to the fixed sensor and thus can pick up pretty much anything above the glass.
The latest versions of FineReader have some sophisticated algorithms to straighten the lines of two-page book scans, so if you can get a scanner to at least register the part close to binding, it should do a fair job. |
After doing a bit more research, mostly here on MobileRead (I just love this place), I decided to buy a OpticBook 3600 scanner. From what I understand it scans right to the edge of the scanner, and it also comes with an older version of ABBYY FineReader. My plan is to upgrade the FineReader software once the scanner arrives.
Here is the cool part. I was planning on buying FineReader, which is $400, but instead I bought the 3600 scanner for $215 and will spend $179 for the FineReader upgrade. So the way I see it, I'm getting the scanner for free.