Digitizing Rare Books Safely: The Value of Non-Destructive Book Scanners
When the task is to digitize books—especially rare, old, oversized, or fragile volumes—traditional flatbed or sheet-fed scanners are a poor choice. A flatbed scanner requires that a book be turned upside down and must be lifted to turn to the next page; a very cumbersome process. Most flatbed scanners are limited in the size of book that can can accept. Sheet feed scanners cannot scan bound books. A Non-Destructive Overhead Book Scanner makes scanning easy by scanning from above, and with the aid of a supportive cradle makes bound book scanning easy and retains the original condition of the book. With overhead scanners, users will have the ability to keep their books in a more natural position while also allowing the scanner to capture distortion free images of the two pages of the book. Libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions that handle delicate and/or highly valuable book collections extensively utilize overhead s...