Suitable for scanning books? Followed by conversion to PDF-book.
1742012
Depends on the book. For textbooks not always. There isn't enough space in the book between the text and the binding so the words on the left get cut off. That or the scanner is slightly too big and wide so the scanner doesn't capture all the text. I would say for most books it's not suitable and you'd be better off with a flat bed book scanner which is much better quality and easier to use but more expensive.
1742013
It is possible. I used it to scan manuals and large books. It works out ok, requires a little editing afterwards (rotation).
1742014
This scanner will scan about anything, the only problem with a book is being able to scan the back of a page, would be holding the page back far enough to make it flat enough to scan. The secret of this scanner is making a steady smooth pass over what you are scanning.
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Hi Robert,Thanks a lot for the info, it was exactly what I was interested in finding out. I've been back and forth about whether to get a dedicated e-reader like the Kindle DX for my PDF's, but considering the price I feel like for that kind of money, I need to think multi-function. I'm trying to limit my gadgets to only a few things that I carry around at one time.
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also, a program called calibre, which is open source, is available, it can manage your e-reader and acts as a library, you can also convert book types from one to the other, the most common and universal standard is ePub, which is supported by The nook. Get it here:http://calibre-ebook.com/source - I
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You use the scanner's software... if you want to create pdf, you can use any pdf reader that has scanning option. Or MS Office...
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Yes -- you can scan from a book by opening the cover and laying the book on the glass. Like most book scans or copies, the binding makes one edge of the page a little distorted and blurry since the binding prevents the book page from laying flat on the glass. It will vary from book to book, but my experience has been that the pages are legible though not pretty. If you're willing to share your email, I'd be happy to send you a pdf sample of a book scan; I don't think I can attach it here.
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You'll need to pull them into some kind of software. I've only used it to scan pictures. Then I load the images (jpgs) onto my computer and open them in Photoshop for editing. If you're scanning documents as pdfs you'll need pdf software, like Adobe Reader, to open and print them. I've never used it to scan as pdf, though.
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Yes. I can scan few pages and saved as a PDF file in my computer. It also includes an option to send as an email through the computer which I do not try.
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Yes. Once scanned, the PDF or image can be stored to a file, sent via email, to an FTP server or to a network drive.
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Thanks a lot! Any other suggestions? All-in-one with medium format slide scanner?
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The tool is good for scanning of pages. Books are not flat enough to scan and I can not recommend it for this purpose.
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You'll have to convert the .mobi (Used by Amazon) to .epub (Used by Slick) format. I use Calibre software to manage my books, the software is free!
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Reads books in any of the listed supported formats from SD cards. If you can use your mac to load any of the supported formats onto an SD card you're good to go.
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The scanner is one feature of the printer that I like. It scans two sided and is fast. It does not by default give searchable pdfs. That probably requires setting up OCR software.
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Well, I think you can use the Kobo ebook reader software, but if it won't read text files, then maybe you can download a .txt reader program from either Amazon or the Sam 4.0 site. I personally didn't like this unit because it crashed on me about 6 or 7 months after getting it and Sylvania would not respond to my inquiries about getting the 2.2 Android OS reinstalled again. Get yourself something else like an AGPtek TP718JQ instead and for less money. It has 1.5GH quad-core processor, Dual cameras, dual speakers, 8GB of memory and a 4.1.1 Android OS.
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Yes, it comes with an application that is very versatile. You can scan several pages into a single document, reorder the pages, delete some of them and insert pages from other PDF documents.
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Yes you can. You just need to set that up on the scan options on your computer. I have done this with PDF format, but not sure if it works for other file formats.
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no you can not scan a page from a book it does not allow you to do that. only if the page out of the book as a single page