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



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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

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