I hope your colleague has solved his or her problem by now. I will still 
throw in my 2 cents worth. I have a HP 4670 flat bed scanner that is a 
see-through piece of equipment and has down very well for me. It is the 
size of a picture frame, I estimate less than 1 1/2 inches thick,  and 
maybe 10x16inches in area. (Sorry, I don't have a ruler handy). It will 
work inverted, horizontal and vertical. I have scanned books and maps 
that were hanging on a wall. It makes excellent images. I do not care 
for the software, perhaps because it is unfamiliar to me and I usually 
use another package to access the scanner, but it does include a 
panorama feature that allows matching series of scans from an original 
that is too large for the scanner. I still use a series of stacked 
cardboard cut-outs that I have made to support the scanner when scanning 
something fragile. In the case of a book, where the thickness of the 
document changes as the pages are turned, I can add or subtract the 
cardboard to the stacks that is supporting the scanner, thus changing 
the height of the scanner from the surface. This scanner cost me $199. 
There is an earlier model that seems to have most of the same features, 
(sans a slide/transparency attachment) that sold for $99 last time that 
I looked.

Jim



wrote:

> Hi all,
>  
> I have a colleague who is needing several very old books scanned at 
> 600 dpi. They need to be scanned face-up so as not to break the 
> binding. Does anyone know of who/where this can be done?
>  
> Thanks bunches!!
>  
> Kathy.
> OCR Specialist
>
>     Don't retype it, OCR it!
> Taking the printed word and converting it to digital format 
> http://www.katscan-ocr.com <http://www.katscan-ocr.com/>
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