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This service is ideal for large books or books that are in a fragile condition. This technique preserves the information in digital format for easy access and searchability, while also preserving the physical book. The benefits of a nondestructive book scanning services nondestructive book scanning services in san francisco bay area, california. Digital books can be easily distributed, reproduced, and read onscreen. Selfserve book scanning stations kic knowledge imaging center. We will scan your books and convert them into searchable pdf, audiobooks mp3. Nondestructive scanning if a book is in fair condition and its not necessary to keep the material in its original format, it can be dissembled the binding is removed but the pages are preserved and fed through a rotary scanner such as the inotec 400series productionlevel document scanner or the soontobereleased 800. Vintage book scanning i had three, thick books scanned by these folks and was impressed with the attentive customer service, the turnaround time, the quality and the price was extremely competitive. Its cheaper than non destructive book scanning and we recommend it for materials that are not physically valuable. In 2011, the prestigious facebookbased, an affiliate of, has contracted with us to provide their nondestructive yearbook scanning services. Bound books that must be kept in tact are scanned on specialized non destructive book scanning equipment by trained archival technicians.
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Book scanning menu book scanning specifications these technical standards describe the c apture specifications for the imaging of full bookbound volume archival master and delivery files for retention in the stanford digital repository sdr and for deployment within the librarys varied delivery and display environments. Lidar has been used to model the external geometry. Depending on individual requirements and type of books, we can digitise them by using either a destructive or non destructive digitisation method. We utilize ground penetrating radar or gpr to see through concrete and. Beautiful images fast and easy, and nondestructive. Golden images llc document scanning service and book. The terms nondestructive examination nde, nondestructive inspection ndi, and nondestructive evaluation nde are also commonly used to describe this technology. Kic book scanning systems are selfservice digitizationscanning stations that make your entire library. This line of automated immersion systems is carefully designed for high scanning speeds and inspection of complex components used in aerospace and industrial applications.
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Ship your books after completing the checkout process through paypal, you package and ship the book to our company. Nondestructive testing ndt is a wide group of analysis techniques used in science and technology industry to evaluate the properties of a material, component or system without causing damage. With nondestructive scanning, we will keep the spine and binding intact to uphold the integrity of the book, volume or journal. Non destructive testing, volume 4 contains the proceedings of the fourth european conference held in london on september 17, 1987. Nondestructive color digitization using our scribe system at one of our many scanning centers across the globe. Before the scanning takes place, the binding of the book is carefully removed, by using a professional. We scan, you relax our highlytrained staff scans your book, process your file using our customized approach and email you a file download link.
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There is also the option of a rush delivery service which we cannot offer for nondestructive scanning. It will only scan a4 books or a little over this size. Association school industries research institution. I got interested again in the topic last fall, and have been lurking here since, reading up on the developments of the community.
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