Book Scanning
Scanning of books, magazines and newspapers
Whether you have old, fragile, historical, bound books or the latest full-colour, glossy magazines or publications, we have the facilities, experience, knowledge and accreditation to digitise your hard-copy material to your desired electronic format such as PDF searchable, Word document format, Amazon Kindle (.mobi), ePub and Apple format, using our top of the range book scanning equipment.
How does book scanning work?
Our scanning bureau uses state-of-the-art book scannersScanners
A device that connects to a computer allowing the user to turn (scan)
documents into images they can manipulate on the computer. which
use an overhead scanner (which uses true linear scanning technology) with sophisticated image capture processing. Image
enhancement and restoration is applied to any poor quality or aged books
in order to optimise the quality.
Once the book scanning process is completed goes through our rigorous
quality control procedures. Scanned books are then converted to the required
digital
formatDigital Format
These can be TIFF or JPEG, which are computer files used to store pictures or graphics. We also use PDF (Portable Document Format) which are designed for easy printing and sharing. such as PDFPDF
PDF is a very popular multi page file format that is used by many companies because it can be opened by almost anybody using free software most people have already on their computers., JPGJPEG
JPEG is a single page per file image format that is popular among graphic designers and web designers it is advised to use this format if you're scanning colour images for presentation purposes. and TIFFTIFF
- A type of computer file used for storing pictures, these can be full color, grayscale or black and white. A multipage TIFF file can contain many pages in a single file. or even Microsoft Word format.
Many e-bookE-book
A book that is available in a computerised format such as Adobe PDF, Microsoft Lit or the eBook Reader format. features can be applied to a PDF book such as converting them into text searchable PDFPDF searchable
PDF Searchable is type of PDF File that has been processed using OCR so that its contents can be searched. files, adding PDF bookmarksPDF bookmarks
PDF Bookmarks are a tool to allow you to easily navigate through a PDF
document by placing links to sections which appear on the right hand side
of the PDF when opened. or PDF
linksPDF links
PDF Links allow you to create buttons in your PDF documents that link from one page to another, these buttons can be text or image, or just an area of the scanned image that you want to make clickable. from the index page or glossary of the book to the relevant sections.
" In 2011, Pearl Scan invested in another top of the range book scanner. Each year we invest in Another Reason To Choose Pearl! |
E-book versions can then be distributed or hosted online on the Amazon store and Apple iBooks store and it is always useful to have publications securely backed up safely in electronic format in case of damage or loss. This is just a couple of reasons why book scanning is an excellent choice for your books.
We have digitised many commercial, personal and out-of-print books and publications.
Rare or delicate books? Click below to find out more about our rare book scanning...
Rare Book Scanning 
The greatest of care is taken when it comes to the scanning and reproduction of older and more delicate and hard to find books with Pearl Scan. We place the requirements around the condition of the books and the speed in which we process them can be reduced to make absolutely sure that the books remain in the same condition that they came to us in.
Of course we treat all the books we scan with the greatest of respect but we understand that there will always be a few cases that need special attention, and we use only our most experienced scanners to complete this work who always wear gloves to protect the pages and print of your books which is all part of our rare book scanning service.
We deal with hundreds of rare and one-off books per year and have been trusted with books from right back in the 16th century up to the present day. With Pearl Scan Solutions you can be assured that we will treat your books and scanning with the greatest of respect.
Contact us for your book scanning / digitisation requirements
Please give us a call on 0845 22 55 923 or request a FREE online book scanning quote.
Local call: 0161 832 7991 (Manchester)
0207 183 1885 (London)
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I was very grateful for some excellent scanning done by Pearl of a variety of articles needed in consistent format for publication as a book. I highly recommend Pearl to others.
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