> Is there a fast way to scan bound
> materials without butchering them?
Yes indeed. Get a cheap 1.0 - 2.0 megapix digital
camera that has a threaded lense (i.e screws in and
This list is nuts (not really) about getting At Least 300 dpi
image scans of printed material for later OCR. That would
make a need for about 5Mpx for books, 8Mpx for magazines.
Luckily even those cameras are starting to get cheap.
John A.