[Athen] Textbook Scanner Recommendations

[Cathy Sidor]

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are all staying warm! I am reaching out in hopes some of you may
have recommendations regarding scanners and software to provide alternative
formats for textbooks. We first try to find the books in Accesstext,
Bookshare and direct outreach to publishers for accessible files. However,
in some instances we have had to send the books out to have the spine of a
book cut off in order to scan the book files to remediate them.

Our Canon DR-9050C scanner that we used with Capture Perfect software has
died and we are looking for replacement options for a high speed duplex
scanner. We do have Omnipage Ultimate software to create word files to make
them accessible from our scans. I have read a little that overhead scanners
may be better than having to send the book out to be cut, scanned then
rebound.

Any and all information on the models and software your office may use to
scan textbooks is appreciated.
Thank you,
Cathy

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Disability and Accessibility Services
University of Michigan-Dearborn
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