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 PLUSTEK BOOK READER V100 ACCESSIBLE SCANNER FOR LOW VISION  US $576.97
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 PLUSTEK OPTICBOOK 3600 SCANNER FOR BOOKS US $199.99
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Plustek 3600 OpticBook Boek Scanner
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SVP PS410 600DPI Colour & Mono HandyScan Handheld Scanner $81.99 Handheld scanner HandyScan PS-410 is good for scanning documents, books & pictures up to A4 size. It is easy to use with the built-in realtime Scanning Detector to avoid distortion, and over-speed alert to control scanning speed. 600 or 300 dpi, color or monochrome scanning option is provided. JPEG files can be saved directly to your micro SD or to your computer via USB port. It supports Windows 7... |
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PS 410 Black(micro 8GB included)600DPI Colour & Mono HandyScan Handheld Scanner $82.99 Handheld scanner HandyScan PS-410 is good for scanning documents, books & pictures up to A4 size. It is easy to use with the built-in realtime Scanning Detector to avoid distortion, and over-speed alert to control scanning speed. 600 or 300 dpi, color or monochrome scanning option is provided. JPEG files can be saved directly to your micro SD or to your computer via USB port. It supports Windows 7... |
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Plustek OpticBook 4800 Book Scanner $749.00 Plustek OpticBook 4800 Flatbed Scanner 783064354660 79... |
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Plustek OpticBook 3800 Book Scanner $267.73 Plustek OpticBook 3800 Flatbed Scanner 783064354806 79... |
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PS410 Black 600DPI Colour & Mono HandyScan Handheld Scanner $69.99 Handheld scanner HandyScan PS-410 is good for scanning documents, books & pictures up to A4 size. It is easy to use with the built-in realtime Scanning Detector to avoid distortion, and over-speed alert to control scanning speed. 600 or 300 dpi, color or monochrome scanning option is provided. JPEG files can be saved directly to your micro SD or to your computer via USB port. It supports Windows 7... |
Is there a decent book scanner to work with paperbacks?
I have more books than is probably healthy, both for fun and reference. I'd like to have access to the fun (of course) and access to searchable forms of the references while I'm not at home, so I'm looking around for a decent scanner to do the job.
Anyone know of a good one? I've heard of problems with the PlusTek OpticBook line (mostly crashy software and cheap design), but has anyone done this for their collection and have a recommendation?
Thanks!
I do have a PlusTek OpticBook and it works very good; I don't see the problem with it. Please find more comments on http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/Plustek_OpticBook. Off course scanning is very time-consuming. However, solutions that allow for faster scanning (a kind of robot taking pictures, and changing pages automatically) is not affordable for mere mortals like you and me.
The real problem is OCR software. You will need to buy a separate package, and the best is ABBYY FineReader. Nevertheless, it is not perfect, so there will be mistakes in your final texts. This can make searching your reference material difficult.
All in all I think digitizing your book collection is a serious challenge. If you are stubborn, and willing to devote a lot of time, you can succeed, but I wouldn't start doing mine.
Note that the organisation "Distributed Proofreaders", which is working on digitizing public domain works, is an excellent source of advice on what you want to do.