This will all come down to the software. the folks at http://www.diybookscanner.org/ http://www.diybookscanner.org/ have been using point and shoot digital came

This will all come down to the software. the folks at http://www.diybookscanner.org/ http://www.diybookscanner.org/ have been using point and shoot digital cameras to make scanners for years so the hardware isn't the problem. The problem is the OCR and dealing with page curl. Without something to flatten the page, the quality of OCR goes down a lot. The video says they have solved it but I am skeptical. Good OCR software like Omnipage or Finereader usually sells for over $100 to start with and they don't do that well with curved pages so if this product really can then it would be worth the $200 to someone serious about book scanning. I would have to see some real proof that they can do high accuracy OCR before spending money on it though.