Scanning a Hardcover

40cc · 09-10-2011, 05:57 AM

I have a hardcover yearbook that is printed almost rimless. If I try to put it on my simple flat bed scanner, it will not work.

Is there some way, destructive would be okay too, to scan this book easily?

mr ploppy · 09-10-2011, 06:34 AM

Use a digital camera instead.

40cc · 09-10-2011, 06:59 AM

The problem is that it is pretty hard to open the book in 90°. Would it be easy to cut it apart with house hold items?

pdurrant · 09-10-2011, 07:15 AM

If you don't mind destroying it, the easy way is to cut off the spine using a metal rule and a sharp knife.

Otherwise, people have built rigs to make photographing pages easy. http://www.diybookscanner.org/ seems to be the right place to look.

And this wiki page seems to have all the info you'd need to build your own non-destructive book scanner.

apbschmitz · 09-13-2011, 01:20 AM

I just did this with a book of mine. My technique was fairly caveman-ish, but it did the job. I took a box cutter and cut off the spine, then scanned the loose pages. I used the OCR component of Acrobat Professional, then copied and pasted into Word. I'm sure there are better ways to do this, but these were the tools I had at hand. In the end, it worked.

09-10-2011, 05:57 AM	#1
40cc Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Asus Eee	Scanning a Hardcover I have a hardcover yearbook that is printed almost rimless. If I try to put it on my simple flat bed scanner, it will not work. Is there some way, destructive would be okay too, to scan this book easily?

09-10-2011, 07:15 AM	#4
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 71,506 Karma: 306214458 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Voyage	If you don't mind destroying it, the easy way is to cut off the spine using a metal rule and a sharp knife. Otherwise, people have built rigs to make photographing pages easy. http://www.diybookscanner.org/ seems to be the right place to look. And this wiki page seems to have all the info you'd need to build your own non-destructive book scanner. Last edited by pdurrant; 09-10-2011 at 07:17 AM.

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09-10-2011, 06:34 AM	#2
mr ploppy Feral Underclass Posts: 3,622 Karma: 26821535 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Yorkshire, tha noz Device: 2nd hand paperback	Use a digital camera instead.

09-10-2011, 06:59 AM	#3
40cc Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Asus Eee	The problem is that it is pretty hard to open the book in 90°. Would it be easy to cut it apart with house hold items?

09-13-2011, 01:20 AM	#5
apbschmitz Lord of Frogtown Posts: 149 Karma: 1154748 Join Date: May 2011 Location: St. Paul MN Device: Kindle	I just did this with a book of mine. My technique was fairly caveman-ish, but it did the job. I took a box cutter and cut off the spine, then scanned the loose pages. I used the OCR component of Acrobat Professional, then copied and pasted into Word. I'm sure there are better ways to do this, but these were the tools I had at hand. In the end, it worked.

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