Bound Book Scanning Service in San Francisco Bay Area, California

What is Bound Book Scanning - Types?

Digitizing Bound Books To PDF Format

How to scan a book without damaging it?

How Much Does Bound Book Scanning Cost?

Why Hire us for Bound Book Scanning?

Anyone who has ever tried to scan a book knows that the binding, or the spine, of the book poses a great challenge. The structure of the book makes it difficult to fully capture all of the text. At eRecordsUSA, you will find a wide variety of professional bound book scanning services.

What is Bound Book Scanning And Its Types?

Bound Book Scanning allows you to scan books and convert them into e- formats. The digital file cleans up storage space and makes the books accessible on your PC or laptop. The digital copies are sharable in easy-to-read formats.

The scanning of bound books can be done in two ways: Destructive Book Scanning and Non-Destructive Book Scanning. The new method is Non Destructive book scanning in which without removing the spine of the book, you can scan the entire book while maintaining the original format. However, choosing the scanning type is your personal decision. We at eRecordsUSA offer both types.

Destructive Bound Book Scanning Services

Destructive bound book scanning services may sound scary, but it simply means that, during the scanning process, the spine is carefully removed. Many of our clients choose this option because it allows for the highest quality scans and these services are available at rates as low as $0.08 per page 

Non-Destructive Bound Book Digitizing Solutions

In some cases, clients come to us with older, out of print books that they are interested in re-publishing, preserving and making more accessible. In this situation, it is often important to the client that the print version of the book is returned in its original condition. This is certainly not a problem. We do offer non-destructive  book scanning services. In this event, the book is unchanged throughout the digitization process. Our prices for non-destructive book scanning services start as low as $0.15 per page.

Factors to Consider While Digitizing Bound Books To PDF

Hardbound books are difficult to scan especially if they are old and fragile. They require careful handling. Consider the following factors while you start the scanning process;

Budget and Deadlines - Setting a budget and deadline to complete the scanning process is important especially if you have a huge quantity of bound books to scan.  In addition, labor and processing costs, transportation costs, and the number of books to scan will be the criteria to set the time and cost to digitize. Transportation cost is an added expenditure that you can save by hiring a scanning and digitizing company nearby.

Collection Condition - With old books, there are multiple issues like the cracked or aging spine, damaged images, and poor or faded paper quality. Bound material should be evaluated on these parameters before the scanning method is adopted to procure the original copy.  The bindings such as stitched spines, three-ring binders, glued spines should be treated with specific consideration depending on the end requirement of the client.

Scanning Method.- For bound book scanning, we prefer to use an overhead book scanner with a high-quality linear camera and a high-end lighting system. The ideal scanner which experts suggest for bounded books have:

--The books having a height of up to 3-4 inches can be efficiently scanned using a non-destructive scanner without removing a spine.

--The bounded textbook scanner must have a resolution of at least 300dpi. This has to be an optical resolution, not interpolated. A resolution of 600dpi is an advantage.

--You will need a scanner with a high-end lighting system. This allows for even illumination of each scan for a better output.

--A hinged and V-shaped cradle scanner can reduce or eliminate spine stress on bound materials by keeping materials at an angle of 90-140 degrees or more while scanning.

Storage Resources.- The storage format can be decided. Sometimes, the final soft copies need to be edited to improve the readability and quality. So, depending on the collection, we suggest the appropriate method. The final copies can be stored in .docs, pdf, JPEG, Kindle, and MP3 book format.

How to scan a book without damaging it?

For a safe scan of books , the scanner, the expert skills, good indexing, and a detailed plan should be adopted. The process generally followed is :

-- Prepare the book by removing inserts, cleaning, and removing paper folding.

-- Scan with a high-quality scanner without stretching binding.

-- Finish the scanning and prepare the book for storage. ...

How Much Does Bound Book Scanning Cost?

The average price range for scanning paper documents is $0.06-$0.11 per page. However, the prices might vary depending on the paper quality and book condition.

Document Type   -     Price Range
Paper $0.07-$0.  -   12 per image
Wide-format        -     $1.00-$1.75 per image

A normal book contains 1000 pages so the cost will be :

-Number of single pagesX $0.06-$0.11( depending on paper quality).

Note: Here the cost of double side printing will be an add on cost.

Factors that can affect the price of your book digitization project might include the number of pages, the number of books to be scanned, whether your electronic book will contain high-resolution images, and other special requirements you may have.

Why Hire us for Bound Book Scanning?

Successful digitization of books requires expert skills to use scanners and special software.

We ensure high levels of digitization at each stage of the conversion process including preparing books, image output, and quality control.

We use OCR technology to index records for each converted digital image.

We serve a variety of commercial, academic, and public organizations to convert the bound books into digital form. We can manage bulk orders.

Our “bound” book scanning service preserves the condition of the books as they are received by us.

What’s more, owning digital copies of bounded books while maintaining their confidentiality at the market’s best price is our promise to our clients.

At eRecordsUSA, we offer Most Affordable & High Quality Book Scanning at competitive prices and special rates for bulk orders. We are happy to provide affordable and flexible bound book scanning services, book digitization services, large format book scanning services to meet your needs and budget.

To receive a free, no-obligation, estimate for your bound book scanning service, Call +1.510.900.8800 or eMail us now.

eRecordsUSA offer Bound Book Scanning Services in following areas of California, San Francisco, San Mateo, Redwood City, Mountain View, Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Marin, Santa Clara, East Bay: Pleasanton, Dublin, Alameda, Fremont, Livermore, Concord, Contra Costa, Milpitas, Hayward, Oakland, San Ramon, Napa Valley: Fairfield, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Solano, Sonoma, Vallejo, Pittsburg & Martinez.