Scanning books

Digital technology is coming into our lives step by step. Scanning books and documents is the process of converting various images into digital form. The electronic image can then be edited or changed in special programs, printed, written to an external medium or sent by e-mail. A digital image is far more durable than an ordinary one, whether on paper or on another carrier, and another considerable advantage is that it can be duplicated in any quantity.

If you need the service of scanning – black-and-white or colour – and digitising in Dnipro, you can use the offers of the Kavun printing house. We work with any format up to A0+ and with paper of different weights.

A little more detail about the process

Digitising documents and books means converting a paper document into an electronic one. There are no problems with single thin sheets, where the process takes a minimum of time, but for stitched and bound documents the procedure is more complicated. This concerns:

• books;
• magazines;
• stitched archival files;
• stitched documents, for example volumes of criminal cases, and so on.

The Kavun printing house offers a full range of scanning services in addition to the digitisation of paper books. A digital archive of data is necessary not only because of current trends but above all as the most reliable way of storing information today. Digitising information makes working with documents of all kinds convenient and efficient, and access to the data becomes much easier if the documents are placed in one of the internet clouds.

Professional digitising and scanning of books and texts

If you need high-quality digital copies of paper materials, all you have to do is hand them over to our managers. We accept any bound or stitched documents with sheets up to A4 in size, or up to A3 for a spread.

Our printing house will be a faithful assistant and contractor in creating electronic document management in a convenient form. It then becomes much easier to find the information you need, and any computer user can work with it.

How much does it cost to scan a book? There are no exorbitant prices in our price list. Our managers choose the best option for scanning and processing the information, and we will help you reduce the costs and keep within your budget.

Features of book scanning

Modern digitisation of books at an affordable price is a fairly labour-intensive process in which the information is transferred and converted into electronic format without damaging or deforming the source. Besides books, digitisation can be applied to:

• magazines;
• newspapers;
• catalogues;
• brochures;
• other source materials.

Our high-precision equipment makes the copy 100% identical to the original, not only for the text but also for the various graphic elements.

The scanning procedure consists of several simple steps: batch scanning and saving to the computer in the format the customer requires, cropping the images that have been obtained, removing distortion and aligning the text. The final step is recognition and conversion into electronic form.

Scanning services are in demand in areas such as:

• book collections, archives and libraries;
• preservation of personal information;
• institutions with a large volume of documents.

Another advantage is that with a professional scanner there is no need to keep turning the book over to turn the page, which makes the scanning faster. It makes no difference to us whether one book or a whole archive has to be scanned – in the latter case the price per unit is considerably lower.

Particular attention is paid to books or volumes of documents that cannot be unstitched and whose spread does not open fully. Special book scanners are needed in such cases.

Advantages of digitisation

Computer scanning of books is one of the most sought-after services, and the cost is affordable for everyone. Digitisation makes it possible to preserve unique materials and to build up a personal, extensive library in the process – one that its owner can access anywhere in the world and in any quantity.

Professional performance of the service allows the text and any graphic images to be converted into the digital format specified by the client. Such materials can then be laid out and corrected with computer programs.

We take on a wide variety of cases – multi-page literature of different formats and in different condition:

• books that do not open fully;
• old books;
• large-format books;
• books with defects or damage.

There are no bent-over edges, dark areas or areas that are difficult to read in the result. The data obtained can be used by several people at the same time, and there is no time limit on storing such electronic copies.

Placing an order for book scanning

Becoming a customer of the Kavun printing house is very easy. You can visit our office in Dnipro, or you can place an order by telephone or online through the website. Our manager will help you with the order.

Do you want to scan a book but keep the price down? We give a discount for a large volume of materials and for regular customers. The price is formed taking several factors into account:

• the number of spreads;
• the format of the edition;
• the colour of the scanning;
• additional services.

To sum up: nowadays almost all information is stored on digital media. This is convenient for storage and efficient in work, and there is no longer any need to carry dozens of books around for study or for work. A copy can now be made in a minute, because the pages can be printed at any time. Now you know where to have your book scanned.