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by majormajor 4044 days ago
What's the state of the art in damageless scanning? Do you still have to rip the pages out in order to get good, fast results?
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https://archive.org/details/InternetArchive-Tour

This is a video of the Scribe machine that the Internet Archive built for book scanning. It uses two commodity digital cameras to image the pages. The computer driving the process is running Linux and gPhoto. They're also working on a tabletop version, which will be easier for smaller institutions to set up and use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning

Using cameras to take pictures of pages seems to be the most "damageless" option.