How to scan a book or many pages quickly
Scanning a bound book is a different problem from scanning a loose sheet: pages curve near the spine, your hand is often in the shot, and there are dozens or hundreds of pages. The key is a repeatable rhythm — same position, same lighting, one photo per page — and a tool that merges everything at the end.
Set up once, shoot many
Put the book on a desk near a window or under an even light, and keep your phone at the same height and angle for every page — propping your elbows on the desk works surprisingly well. Press the page as flat as you can with your off-hand at the outer margin, where your fingers are easy to crop out later.
One page or two at a time?
Shooting a single page per photo gives straighter results, because the scan area can hug one page and skip the curved gutter. Shooting a two-page spread is faster; if you do, scan the same photo twice — once with the area over the left page, once over the right — and you still get one clean PDF page per book page.
Batch flow in the browser
Queue a batch of photos at once: Scandut processes them one after another, suggesting a scan area for each, and every confirmed page lands in the tray. When the chapter is done, download the tray as a single PDF. Document mode keeps text crisp; use Color for illustrated pages.
A video mode is on our roadmap — film yourself flipping pages, and the sharpest frame of each page is picked automatically. Until then, the photo batch flow above is the fastest path.