Apart from David's point, I would just like to remark that I have practically given up scanning books on scanners. Instead I use a decent digital camera (nothing special, a 12 megapixel powershot, usually set to lower resolutions) instead of my scanner, which now lies idle. That way I need not butcher sometimes precious copies of books. It takes only a little practice to get faster and generally superior results. For large volumes of such "camera scanning" one can do a little setting up of ad hoc kit, but nothing demanding. My OCR gives, if anything, better results with the camera jpg files than the scanner output, especially with tiny typefaces. Think about it. Jon On 2011/02/12 16:31 PM, Bruce Feist wrote:
I'm considering removing the pages from a 1911 book I have in order to scan them, and then having the book professionally reassembled. Can any of you suggest a reliable and inexpensive bookbinder to do this? Am I mad to even consider the idea?
The book probably doesn't have any particular cash value, but it does have sentimental value to me. It's called "English for New Americans", and my grandfather used it when he came to this country around 1930. (The book itself is from 1911; it was used when he got it.) I'm willing to have it go through this abuse, but I'd like to have it usable afterward.
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