[Kadin]

That's if you want to use a sheet-feeding scanner, in order to save time. It's a bit of a weird suggestion, since I'd imagine the people who still have these books probably aren't the sort of people who want to destroy them just to save some time, but there are lots of other options.

You could pretty easily meet their requirements with a DSLR on a copystand. I'd do the left and right pages separately (unless you have a two-camera setup) so that everything is nice and flat.

The one oddball requirement is that users convert to CMYK. I'm not sure why they think that's a good idea. Most home scanners are purely RGB devices and they're just going to convert (shoddily) to CMYK in the driver or in a conversion program downstream. Seems like they're asking for color issues. I'd have asked for sRGB-colorspaced RGB, or "don't touch the knobs you don't understand". shrug

[cptskippy]

They're also asking for users to descreen the images which is basically a blurring feature that gets rid of the halftone that's a result of offset printing.

They're not looking for high quality archival scans, they're asking users to perform some basic workflow tasks necessary to ready the images for distribution.

It all sounds very sketchy to me. That or they're just completely incompetent.