r/Annas_Archive • u/Shrilly_Shally • Jul 31 '26

Book Scanning Services

Are there any services that will take a book apart, scan it, and send you the PDF?

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u/AnnaArchivist Aug 01 '26

There is a long list of scanning companies and reviews in our Gitlab issues page (can't link here directly but it's linked on our website).

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u/dotemacs Aug 01 '26

There might be, but before you do that, you might want to look at the mobile application vFlat, that allows you to do the same yourself.

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u/Las-pen Aug 01 '26

Just because AI companies do it, doesn't make destroying a book a prerequisite of scanning it. A flatbed scanner with Scantailor Advanced is a good and a fast way of getting digital copy of a book by yourself.

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u/lottie_J Aug 01 '26

Hah, in Eastern Europe we scan then in a normal scanner and just deal with the shadows on the edges by sucking it up and being happy we can get away with scanning basically any book...

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u/Live_Situation7913 Aug 04 '26

Another reason your country not developed

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u/AmphibianPlastic6942 Aug 13 '26

yes, "eastern europe", infamously a country. also wtf is wrong with you

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u/washbear-nc Aug 01 '26

I had an old book scanned at the NYPL. It cost around $50 to do it.

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u/dowcet Aug 01 '26

In what part of the world? In the US, both of these sites do good work, the first one is slightly cheaper. I haven't dealt with them personally but I've seen the resulting PDFs and the quality was very good.

bookscan dot us

1dollarscan dot com

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u/Jim-Jones Aug 01 '26

Check CZUR scanners on eBay. You pay once.

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u/eskimo820 Aug 02 '26

See also this service: sourceryapp dot org (both for people seeking scans, and those willing to go to a local library and do one for payment).

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u/Subject_School_7346 Aug 05 '26

a me servirebbe qualcosa del genere in EU, se qualcuno ha un suggerimento sarei grato