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Why don't people who do this have a scanner that outputs text.

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Because it's a lot faster to take pictures most likely, unless you have some really fancy (expensive) scanner that is specifically made for books.

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I guess, my scanner will scan a page and output text in PDF form. I thought this was pretty standard.

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Wtf dude. Have you ever seen a book? Can you ballpark the ways in which it might be harder to scan an entire book into text than it would be to scan an individual sheet of paper?

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Yeah, but even if you didn't want to ruin the binding, there are plenty of scanners that are quicker to use than digital cameras. I've had to scan in books before and it would probably take <45 minutes for this book.