Hi list,
I'd like to pick your collective brains, if I may?
I have quite a few books here which, though I'd like to keep the
content, do take up a lot of space*. I'm looking at some kind of
solution for scanning them, and so far "cutting the spines off and
loading the pages into a sheet-fed scanner" seems likely to be fastest
- I can't afford an automatic book scanner, and whilst there are units
like the Mustek OpticBook range, it'd take forever to be there picking
the book up, turning the page and replacing it for each scan.
This is only semi-OT inasmuch as I know various people on the list
need to scan classic-computer-related documentation from time to time,
so this info may be useful to others.
So - does anyone know of a make/model scanner which has a high
(ideally 100 pages or more) sheet-feed capacity, is fast (ideally
SCSI, maybe USB2, Firewire is third choice) and produces good results
for this sort of thing? New or secondhand is fine.
Thanks,
Ed.
* nothing of any historic or cultural significance - mainly just
recipe books. I wouldn't destroy anything rare or important.