HP Archeves

[Dave Shaffer]

(08-11-2017 10:57 AM)EugeneNine Wrote:  I believe most typical books you have to cut the binding otherwise they don't lay flat enough to scan. I've seen a technique where they clamped the book between a couple boards and used a bandsaw to cut the binding off. I'm not an expert in that field though so someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I would like to see if there is any merit in contacting archive.org and see how/if they can do it as they have done a lot of other books/magazines.

I have used my table saw to cut the binding from several books - works OK.

I have also used my DSLR to photograph pages - they don't have to be really flat, but the flatter the better. Various programs (PhotoShop Elements, in particular) will convert photo files to pdfs (albeit rather slowly for PSE at high resolution - even with i7 processor).