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If no one minds I would like to start a list of book scanning projects. The digital libraries article and category is too diverse in scope and I am unable to find anywhere on Wikipedia a list specific to just book scanning. I'll start it here as a sub-section, and if it gets large enough, it could be spun off to a list-of article later. I thought about using a category, but the list may need some sort of descriptive explanation per entry, and categories tend to attract other things that are not entirely on topic, a list is more focused. -- Stbalbach 23:53, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
I've changed my mind as it appears to be a fairly large and complex project. In case anyone is interested here is a preliminary list:
Public Domain Books fully available.
Commercial Books in copyright. Partial view and/or search may be possible.
-- Stbalbach 00:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
As of spring 2010, the lowest cost 11x17 color scanner with an ADF appears to be the Canon ImageRunner 2018i for US$2600. This is not really what I am seeking since it is attached to a monochrome workgroup printer. The scanner apparently can't be obtained separately.
But other than this one, 11x17 color scanners with an ADF soar to astronomical heights, making it very difficult to rapidly scan large piles of media on a hobbyist budget. I'm not willing to shell out some US$5000 for a Fujitsu FI-6670A high speed 11x17 duplex color scanner, and really $2600 for the 2018i is still quite high for a hobby project, but I suppose I could resell it afterwards.. DMahalko ( talk) 01:50, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Plustek produces book scanners that look mostly like ordinary flatbed scanners. See them here: Plustek OpticBook. I did not recognize them in the article. Nikolas Ojala ( talk) 19:36, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
It should describe, for example, common types of book scanners. I think there are at the following:
Would anyone like to comment on that? Is it worth including in the article? It's OR, but the article has next to no footnotes anyway, sigh. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:28, 10 March 2015 (UTC)