Bound Book Scanning Inc Blog

After receiving rights back to some of my older novels, I thought I’d just retype them.  Which was taking forever and a waste of time. But I’d had so many friends who’d had problems with scanning companies, I remained hesitant.  Then a writer friend told me about Bound Book Scanning.  She also sent me a file they’d done for her that looked wonderful. 

So, I sent them two books as a trial. One I had to send used from Amazon, because I no longer had a copy.  In a surprisingly short time I received both PDF and Word files.  I was so impressed with their speed, work, and price, I sent them ten more, worried because some of the pages were very yellowed from age, but again they look great. 

As if that wasn’t impressive enough, caught up in a deadline the week they sent me the files for those ten books, I merely put the email in a folder and didn’t get around to downloading the files until weeks later, when I found out that the Hightail download time had expired. Time to panic.  I emailed that night and asked them if they’d kept the files.  First thing in the morning, I received them again. 

Bound Book Scanning is, in my opinion, the best in the business and I couldn’t recommend them more highly. And do to other writers every chance I get. 

Although I had read consistently “high-praise” reviews for this company, I still had a little hesitation to send a foreign book to them for OCR (with Swedish language characters) and editable Word files; reason being, it was scarce, difficult to locate, and a fairly costly book. Yet when time came for me to package and send it off, I definitely did this with confidence in Mark and the team of experts. Before the expected delivery by USPS of the package to Bound Book Scanning, I received notice that the scanning work was complete and files to soon be found in my email box. This project required a special attention to photos called “segmentation” wherein, in making the PDF, the absolute highest industry quality would be applied. It nearly doubled the project cost because of labor-intensive attention that is required for each image, and mine had over 150 B&W photos and drawings. However, the expected quality that I was told about by Mark over the phone became mine as a result. My plan now is to acquire the services of a Swedish-to-English translator and produce this as an ebook for the public in both languages. Only with the scanned file could I post for bid this project as a result of the “word count” feature in Word. I shall use the file as well to obtain US Copyright by electronic submission. Based on this fine experience with Bound Book Scanning, I recommend Bound Book Scanning to all having similar duplication and digital file needs.