DIY Book Scanner

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Can anybody provide some hands-on experience with the Microtek XT-3500?

I can report that the Canon ImageFormula DR-M160 is a good buy. I am interested in this scanner. Could you elaborate a bit on the user-friendliness of the included divers/software? I have a Fujitsu fi-6130 and it's pure frustration. The TWAIN driver is an total mess, integration with Kofax VRS is c...

grisard wrote:The OCR result is questionable: word recognition seems to be o.k. but when you copy the hidden text from this pdf into Word, there is a paragraph break after each single word, i.e. each word has its own line! So from this roughly 4 pages of original text you get 21 pages in Word. :sho...

There is a (positive) review of this scanner on this blog: http://www.documentsnap.com/scansnap-sv600-review. But I am not so sure whether this is an impartial opinion because the website http://www.documentsnap.com in general rather promotes Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners over any other producers (the s...

hardware steps: the book scanner must have 1. a way that prevents the book from sliding up or down in the tray during capture. A thin piece of wood/cardboard/plastic pushing the book spine from the top and bottom would work. 2. some form of easily repositionable markers on top of the platen glass f...