[joshuaissac]

> As a comparison, I randomly picked a Chinese scanning shop on Taobao and sent a book for scanning for 0.05 yuan, or $0.0071, per page.

> They delivered the PDF in less than two hours after receiving the book.

It would have been good to see how well they did in terms of OCR, image compression, etc., compared to 1DollarScan.

[firexcy]

Author here — the image quality was comparable, if not better, which is understandable because both use pretty standard commercial scanners. An upside is that instead of cutting the binder as 1DollarScan does, they tore the pages from the seam, so the pages remained whole. They didn’t do any compression either.