Destructive Book Scanning

“Destructive” scanning is the industry term for scanning a book by removing the spine, and then scanning the pages via a feeder method. This method is unlike the “non-destructive” procedure,where the book remains intact.

Destructive scanning is cheaper and faster and produces similar quality results. There are also no problems with page curvature which present themselves in non-destructive scanning where images are printed until the spine, for example when scanning magazines or yearbooks.

We use high-end scanners which produce quality text and image results in bitonal, greyscale, or color modes. We scan at 300 DPI in most cases, but can scan at up to 600 DPI upon request and at additional cost.

After scanning, we use industry leading OCR technology with over 99.6% accuracy to convert to many standard formats as per your order, including: editable text (Word), searchable PDF, eBook formats (ePub, mobi), and audiobook (mp3).

Generally, we only keep the cut books for a few days after scanning, before discarding them to be recycled, but we can return your cut pages to you if requested in the comments field of your order.