These days, using a couple of dedicated hi-res cameras may be a much faster way to aquire the page images A scanner's workbench could be rigged with screens fo

These days, using a couple of dedicated hi-res cameras may be a much faster way to aquire the page images A scanner's workbench could be rigged with screens for live preview and QC. Then assemble/OCR in software. The main manual task is page turning, the rest could be fixed (light, exposure, alignment etc)