How does everyone here scan books and magazines into their systems,
without destroying said magazines/books?

What type of scanners do you use?

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On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 07:51:06PM -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> How does everyone here scan books and magazines into their systems,
> without destroying said magazines/books?
>
> What type of scanners do you use?

Personally, I've never really been too bothered about it, but the
definitive solution appears to be along the lines of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning

Alternatively, look at the unpaper package. It seems quite good at doing
those annoying tasks such as straightening the image, removing the
gradient on the background etc.

On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:51:06 -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote:

> How does everyone here scan books and magazines into their systems,
> without destroying said magazines/books?

By buying the digital edition? ;-P

> What type of scanners do you use?

Flatbed (yes, the binding suffers), although there are book scanners in
the market for that purpose.

Greetings,

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Camaleón


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