[gutvol-d] Scanners vs. Cameras

I've posted a couple photographed books to DP, and while the results aren't perfect, they were legible. I used nothing fancy--a 4MP camera, hand-held (though I'm looking at ways to brace it, since shaky images are my biggest problem), a table lamp for light, manual exposure, auto-focus (set on close-up mode). I'm taking notes of what works and what doesn't, with an eye toward assembling a guide to photographing books for OCR (if such a thing doesn't already exist). I'll say up front that I've not been able to get flash photography to work. The page washes out completely. Geoff