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Ask HN: Is there a great book-to-PDF scanning service?
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.
I'm looking for recommendations of scanning/OCR/PDF conversion services for physical books. I'd consider both destructive and non-destructive options, although one of the books is pretty nice and I'd like to keep it without its spine cut off.
I care more about high image quality/legibility on retina-type screens and accurate OCR/searchability, and less about price, turnaround time, or file size.
Has anybody used such services with high-quality results?
- NonEUCitizen 12y ago1. I have not used them yet, but have heard of: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/12/1dollarscan-com-scans-and-digitizes-your-books-and-documents-for-you/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/12/1dollarscan-com-scans-and-d... 2. If it's a public domain book, you can send it to archive.org and they'll scan it for you (they'll charge a modest fee plus they'll want to put it up on the web).