I scan books a lot, here are my wish list for the new models: 1) "background color smoothing" or "background purification" (as different brands call it differently): so that a blue will be captured as a solid blue instead of thousand differently slightly different blue. This can significantly improve OCR qualify and reduce scanned file szie. 2) regional detection. Many textbooks has diagrams in the middle of the page, which forces people to use gradescale because black and white scanning will render the diagram unreadable while scanning it in colors will hugely increase the file size. 3) vectorizing scanned images. Even Abbyy and some other OCR tools are far more accurate than Acrobat, Acrobat is still my first and only choice when it comes to OCR English materials because it has a profile that can just vectorize fonts while it carries out OCR. This can make the file size 1/10 the original file size and at the same time makes the text crisp and clear that cannot be gotten from other OCR tools.
I have scanned dozens of books with my Lumix FZ20 camera and it worked fine. No flash, just ambient diffused light from a window. A small pane of non-reflective glass (from Michaels) was/is used to flatten each page - 2 pages per shot. The only reason I had to switch to an overhead scanner (Aver U50) is that my back started hurting from bending over the book(s).
piQx Imaging its been I think 3 years since I last used my xcanex before life hit me and I got terribly busy, but I had a textbook that was slightly larger than the board provided for the xcanex. So I had to improvise a way to capture a whole page including bringing up the camera or putting the whole xcanex on top of a platform higher than the table, and turning off the auto feature because it couldn’t tell the dimensions. No matter what I did, I kept getting glares still. It seems the xcanex only works for certain sizes of books and not big textbooks. So I just used my iPhone to take photos of the pages I needed and worked from there to avoid the unforgiving glare. Otherwise the xcanex works well, but with this video I thought maybe something changed the last three years. Hence my question.
Our guess is that your camera angle is set incorrectly. When scanning glossy material, you have to increase the camera angle - after increasing camera angle, set the pad and book position again.
Depends on your scanning needs. I think that they have a lot of knowledge gather from their years of trying to find solutions to particular scanning process issues.
