Holy Crap look at this [thing!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ccxwNssmo)

I wonder how it compensates the page being convex to the camera axis?





As long as it is your book, as in you own it, they will do it.

But they wouldn't do copyrighted material?

Yeah, unfortunately you do not get back the book but you get a PDF which is in searchable format. Also, PDFs last a bit longer ;P

They cut the spine so they destroy your books in the process?

Hey All.
I'm kind of a tinkerer and I have a small machine shop.  I've been interested in making a machine that can scan old paper text books.  I can't imagine trying to scan a thousand page book by hand!  F that.

Does such a thing exist?  Anybody else interested in helping me design an open source unit?



How to scan physical books to pdf?