Scanning books (was: Stuff Available Ft. Wayne IN

[Bjørn Vermo]

On 11 Nov 2004 05:26:53 -0500, james <james at jdfogg.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 21:57, Fred Cisin wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, John Allain wrote:
>> > I have the paper manual here somewhere.  It's bound (soft) so
>> > may be a pain to scan.  It's about time for someone to make an
>> > "open book scanner", one with a wedge of glass that you can
>> > drop the book onto.  I don't want this binding opened 180° flat.
>
> Xerox and others make photocopiers for this. The glass extends all the
> way to the side of the machine and you hang the book on the side. Maybe
> someone makes a scanner like this. Check with a very large library or
> university library.
>

HP makes a see-through scanner which can be put on top of whatever you  
want to scan.
Convenient for items which are hard to scan with normal flatbed scanners,  
and not too expensive.

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-bv