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Chris Dreher · 08-16-2017, 03:41 PM

(08-12-2017 02:39 AM)Duane Hess Wrote: FYI, after manualsplus.com closed, I believe they donated their inventory to archive.org. They were a technical manual reseller and had (if I recall) over 1000+ HP & Agilent publications in addition to 100's of thousands of non-HP technical publications. I've used archive.org only a little bit & its slipped my mind until now. They closed in 2015; bought a couple 1970 instrumentation manuals from them. Don't know if they had HP-calc stuff or not. Would assume it'd take years to get scanned & online, they might of had over 1 million items.

Referring to old scanners didn't Canon have an "edge" scanner so you could wedge a book in it so the page would be flat and the binding didn't need to be obliterated?

EDIT: (+ a few minutes)
The Canon flatbed I'm thinking of is years old, but I'm sure other vendors currently have book flatbed scanners which do the same. i.e. the glass goes to the edge of the device and they scan a few millimeters from the edge of the glass.

It might take some work, but I would not be surprised if there are larger libraries with such facilities. Also book stores & librarys have book trimmers which would zip an binding right off. Seems to me, it would be nice to avoid that.

I was going to mention that there was a Xerox photocopier with a beveled edge. Instead of trying to open the book flat (i.e. 180 degrees open), you only had top open the book most of the way (i.e 135 degrees open). It reduced/eliminated the need to destroy book bindings.

Regarding a different earlier port, if you have a scanner whose drivers don't support the latest OS, try out VueScan. It's what I use on my HP ScanJet 5370C. You can try before you buy.
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