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Ask HN: Is there a great book-to-PDF scanning service?

3 pointsby liyanageover 10 years ago
I bought and will buy some books that are not sold as ebooks at all and that I want to read on my Mac and iPhone as PDFs.<p>I&#x27;m looking for recommendations of scanning&#x2F;OCR&#x2F;PDF conversion services for physical books. I&#x27;d consider both destructive and non-destructive options, although one of the books is pretty nice and I&#x27;d like to keep it without its spine cut off.<p>I care more about high image quality&#x2F;legibility on retina-type screens and accurate OCR&#x2F;searchability, and less about price, turnaround time, or file size.<p>Has anybody used such services with high-quality results?

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NonEUCitizenover 10 years ago
1. I have not used them yet, but have heard of:<p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/12/1dollarscan-com-scans-and-digitizes-your-books-and-documents-for-you/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;08&#x2F;12&#x2F;1dollarscan-com-scans-and-d...</a><p>2. If it&#x27;s a public domain book, you can send it to archive.org and they&#x27;ll scan it for you (they&#x27;ll charge a modest fee plus they&#x27;ll want to put it up on the web).