PROFESSIONAL BOOK SCANS

Book Scanning Services

Are you looking to digitize your books and preserve them for a lifetime? At Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction, we specialize in high-resolution reproduction of artwork and are excited to extend our services to include professional book scanning. Some of the items we are able to scan under this service include art books, historical texts, diaries, sketchbooks, magazines, and more. Bring your books to us for scanning, and we will help you preserve and share your content with exceptional clarity and detail.

Art Books

Sketchbooks

Historical Books

Journals and Diaries

Magazines

Yearbooks

Mail-in

If you live in Seattle, you are more than welcome to drop off your books to us in-person. However, if you do not live in the Pacific Northwest, we accept mail-in scans for book scanning. For instructions on packing and shipping books for scanning, visit our Shipping Page for more information. Please note that we have two different addresses; a GPS address and a mailing address. Please make sure that all items are shipped to the one that follows.

Mailing Address: 2940 112th Ave SE Bellevue, WA 98004

Pricing

Our standard pricing begins at $1 per page and can go up to $5 a page, but we encourage you to contact us for a custom quote tailored to your specific project requirements. There is a wide range in complexity and needs for book scanning. Factors in deciding cost include the condition of the book, size, how curly it is, whether or not it has photos, glossy and reflective surfaces or matte surfaces, etc. 

Each project does require a quote because we need to determine the time and effort required to do the job. Anything with shiny photos is more difficult, and heavy page curl can be more difficult. Magazines are difficult because they are very reflective, and sketch books may need to be edited for satisfactory results. 

Some examples of the range of book scanning jobs we have done in the past include: a sketch book that was turned into a high end taro deck, small sketches that were printed onto large panel boards and used as underpaintings, diaries, sketchbooks of family members that passed away, out of print books that required OCR recognition, out of print dictiorary in an obscure African language that required OCR (character recognition), magazines, family photo albums, and secret Mason Lodge ledgers from the 1800s. 

What we deliver

  • For most book scanning projects we deliver a PDF file at 300-600 PPI depending on the size of the book. Usually 300 PPI is more than sufficient. 
  • OCR (Optical Text Recognition): We will OCR the text if possible, so the PDF file is searchable and usable on an iPad or other such device. OCR cannot be performed on hand written text, such as diaries. 
  • Files are delivered to you via dropbox, just like our art scans. You do not need to have dropbox to download the files to your computer. 
  • We charge extra for people requiring individual files for each page, such as jpg or tif. We strongly prefer not to transfer files onto thumb drives for people. You can download the files onto your own thumbdrive quite easily. 

Contact Us

For more information, please call us at 425-749-7396 or email us at [email protected]. We much prefer email over phone calls because it gives us time to better respond and provides a record of our back and forth. We won’t provide quotes over the phone, but are happy to answer questions over the phone.