01-01-2010, 04:36 PM | #1 |
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Affordable book scanning service?
Does anybody know about a affordable book scanning service where I can send a paper books for scanning?
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01-01-2010, 10:11 PM | #2 |
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I have a horrible feeling that in many cases it would be cheaper to slice the spine off the book and run it through a scanner with a sheet-feeder.
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01-01-2010, 10:14 PM | #3 | |
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Companies ship books and there are large number of small operations that do this type of work - scan and ocr. This is possible because large number of people can 'read' and 'write' in English who are available for low cost. |
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01-01-2010, 11:00 PM | #4 |
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Yep, India. I recently heard an interview with the owner of a book scanning service in India. I think it was on NPR.
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01-02-2010, 04:46 AM | #5 |
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Thanks for this. I do not care about the spine and there is no need of OCR. India is great but is is a quite large country. Does anybody have more detailed directions?
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01-04-2010, 03:07 AM | #8 |
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Teleread found what I were looking for: Blue Leaf Book Scanning.
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01-04-2010, 03:41 AM | #9 |
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Well, Blue Leaf Book Scanning charges 216$ for 10 scanned books with a total pagecount of 4000 pages.
I don't think it's worth it, for that money you could re-buy the books you'd want to have scanned as an ebook or buy/build yourself an own bookscanner. |
01-04-2010, 04:18 AM | #10 |
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If I had the time (and a place to keep the thing) it would have been fun to build my own book scanner, but it would probably cost me more than USD 200 in material.
Only a limited number of books are available as ebooks today. In my country it is less than 1000. Further, books are quite expensive here with the ordinary price for a hardback being the equivalent of USD 60. Ebooks will probably be cheaper, but I do not know how much cheaper. Last edited by Prospect; 01-04-2010 at 09:28 AM. |
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http://www.instructables.com/id/Quic...With-a-Camera/ It's really cheap when you consider that any middling-small tripod, clear sheet of plexiglas and you've-probably-already-got-it digicam will do. Derek |
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01-04-2010, 08:51 PM | #12 | |
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PS. I think Opticbooks are running in the $200-300 range these days. I've gotten at least 60 books out of mine with no trouble yet (knocks on wood). Last edited by wayrad; 01-04-2010 at 08:56 PM. |
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I once tried to order a paper book from Amazon.com with delivery directly to Blue Leaf quoting the order number from Blue Leaf in Amazon's gift note. It worked flawlessly. Since I did not need the paper this saved me both shipping and time since Amazon ships for free in the US and I am an international customer. In cases where no ebook version of the book is available this is now my preferred way to order books. |
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04-17-2010, 09:00 AM | #14 |
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Those are very good prices if you only have a few otherwise unavailable old favorites you want made into ebooks, methinks.
Prospect, you've found BlueLeaf to be dependable? |
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Concerning the Blue Leaf service...is the resulting ebook pretty much error-free ? After attempting to convert a PDF to mobi format, i found it, for the most part, unusable. Just wanted to ask someone who has actually used the service. Thanks in advance.
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