It’s a scenario that the Yiddish writers of yore could never have predicted, and yet by which they likely would have been tickled: Today, their work is being digitized with the help of a home-made ...

Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...

I have to admit that while this looks interesting, and I do love ebooks (I love my physical books as well), the very thought of converting my library makes me cringe. All said (novels, reference, ...

[Daniel] at diybookscanner.org posted a roundup of the best automatic book scanner builds to date. A lot of the comments on our last coverage of book scanners were summed up by [Spork] with, “No ...

I've been trying to digitize some of my old books and comics, and I purchased a Plustek Opticbook 4800 scanner for the job (because some of these are comics, overhead scanners, or ones without platens ...