Digitize a Library?

Question

My father, who was an homme des lettres, recently passed away, leaving us his huge collection of books. I'd like to make digital copies, but running them through a flatbed scanner would take too long. Are there faster ways? Eg. recording a video of flipping through the book's pages with a software extracting the individual pages from the book? OCR would be nice to have but not necessary. TIA!

Rotundo · Accepted Answer

Solutions depend on the amount of books you have to scan.
- For "disposable" books, cut the spine and haul the paper through a sheet-feeding scanner; - For non-disposable books, photograph each page;
Which is near impossible to do for a serious collection: scanning 10 books a day, every day, is only about 3500 books.
There are companies that will do the work for you, including meta data, but it will cost a small fortune.
Perhaps best to think about why you want to make copies.

dsq · Answer

I am also looking for a similar solution, but for various documents of different sizes and types.Ideally it would also make it easy to give names for folders and subfolders.

warrenm · Answer

Might consider something like a CZUR https://shop.czur.com/(no affiliation - have had them recommended on a couple subs on reddit)

Digitize a Library?

I am also looking for a similar solution, but for various documents of different sizes and types.
Ideally it would also make it easy to give names for folders and subfolders.

Might consider something like a CZUR https://shop.czur.com/
(no affiliation - have had them recommended on a couple subs on reddit)