So you have a lot of books. Great, but where do you put them? With space becoming an issue everywhere, whether it's where we work or where we live, it seems that whatever we can fit in that we truly need stays and what can be substituted goes. But how could you possibly substitute your dear book collection? Well quite easily if you're not too attached simply by hiring a professional company to scan books to PDF.
Perhaps you think you could do this by yourself and you won't need a professional company to help you out with it. This is true, you can do it yourself but consider how much of your time it would take to scan in potentially thousands of pages which you sort of hope will come out looking good and aligned perfectly. The adjustments alone after scanning can be a total time killer in itself.
This is why it's always best to leave it to the professionals, to people who have experience and knowledge and know how to correctly scan books to PDF and who can throw in a few perks on top. Professional document scanning companies do this as a profession, it's what they're good at. They will essentially take your book and after you have chosen one of their scanning methods (usually debound, if you're OK with your books being taken apart or intact conversion, more suitable and ideal for rarer or more fragile books that you need to keep in good condition), they will scan in your book and convert the scanned pages into a PDF for you. On top of that some companies offer a service known as OCR.
OCR, or optical character recognition as it is commonly known will allow your books to be made searchable when they are on your computer or tablet device. This makes finding references, numbers and names incredibly easy, especially as a lot of professional OCR systems these days are amazingly accurate. You can scan your books to PDF as you wish, but what you'll come out with is essentially a flat PDF with no searching capabilities like a professional company can offer. If you don't require OCR though, that's not a problem either, especially as OCR costs next to nothing in terms of price.
Speaking of price, it might come as some surprise to you to realise that to professionally scan books to PDF costs very little, as low as 10p per page. This makes it all the more accessible and all the more acceptable as a way to get professionals to convert your books for you into a digital format.
Often if you supply a larger quantity of books the price will come down too, much like anything else for sale in the world; the more you buy, the cheaper the overall cost will be for you.
However to ensure the company you have chosen to scan books to PDF offers a quality service, it is always better to just send them one and most companies will offer a trial run of a few pages so you can assess the quality for yourself.
If you want to know more about how companies scan books to PDF, visit our website.
Also keep in mind that many of these companies will also scan to other formats including editable Microsoft Word format, HTML and e-reader formats that will work on your tablets and e-reader devices.
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