I have a flatbed scanner and a phone with a quality camera.
For text-heavy books I use the CamScanner app, and then scan the cover using my flatbed. Non destructive, very effective. For magazines and newspapers, the flatbed is usually enough, as the lack of a solid spine makes scanning with minimal wear very easy.
Now comes my problem: I have a lot of image-heavy books that I want to scan, but I have yet to find a good method to do so.
CamScanner is horrid at dealing with illustrations and photographs. The flatbed works alright, but not great. Because I avoid breaking the book's spine, there are always visible shadows and both text and images become a little blurry when they're close to the hinge.
I'm wondering if there's an app similar to CamScanner but more appropriate for photographs? Or a different method altogether.
I know some people melt the glue keeping the spine together, scan the pages individually, and then glue everything back on. This wouldn't work for all of the books in my collection- but I have considered trying it on a handful of them. I'm just a little scared of screwing the process up.
Thanks in advance.