Book Scanning

Professional Book Scanning & Digitisation Services (UK-Wide)

ProScan offers a specialist book scanning service for books, magazines, periodicals, journals and other bound documents. With more than 20 years of experience, we help individuals, businesses, charities and public sector organisations digitise books safely and accurately.

All work is completed in-house using advanced Zeutschel and Kodak technology, ensuring your books are scanned with exceptional clarity and care.

If you’re ready to get started, you can view prices and place an order online in just a few minutes:

View our price list and online order form here

For more information on our book scanning service, please call us on 023 8063 0050 or contact us online.

Price List & Order Form

Why Choose ProScan for Book Scanning?

Preserve and Protect Your Books Forever

Digitising your books creates a permanent, secure digital archive. Files can be stored locally, backed up in the cloud and accessed instantly on any device.

Highest-Quality Book Digitisation

Our overhead bound book scanners capture every page — including covers — without damaging your book. This makes our service ideal for:

Fragile or historic books
Out-of-print publications
Tight-bound volumes
Books you cannot risk damaging on a flatbed scanner

Digital enhancement can be applied to improve clarity, meaning the digital version is often easier to read than the original.

Searchable Text With OCR

We use industry-leading Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to convert scanned pages into searchable, editable text. Perfect for authors, researchers, archivists and businesses.

Easy Access & Easy Sharing

Your scanned books will be supplied as PDF or other digital formats on request. Share files with colleagues, family or readers—within copyright rules.

Create Space by Digitising Your Book Collection

After scanning, you can choose to have your books:

Returned to you
Stored securely with us
Or responsibly disposed of

Who Uses Our Book Scanning Service?

Archivists & Heritage Organisations

Digitise rare or fragile books for long-term preservation and digital access. Ask about PDF/A and TIFF archival formats.

Authors & Publishers

Turn older manuscripts or printed editions into modern digital formats such as PDF for re-release.

Book Collectors

Digitise entire collections of magazines, journals or bound volumes for easy search and referencing.

Businesses & Technical Departments

Scan manuals, machinery guides, medical journals, directories, research papers and other reference materials.

Individuals & Families

Preserve diaries, notebooks, family archives and sentimental books in convenient digital formats.

Destructive & Non-Destructive Book Scanning Options

Non-Destructive (Most Popular)

Your book remains intact. Ideal for valuable, delicate or sentimental items. Produces excellent image quality using specialist overhead scanners.

Destructive (Fastest & Most Cost-Effective)

Pages are removed from the spine before scanning. This method:

Produces the highest-quality images
Is the quickest method
Is the most affordable per page

Books cannot be returned in their original form after destructive scanning.

How Our Book Scanning Service Works

1. We Collect Your Books

Available UK-wide. Free collections in some areas. Trusted couriers for the rest of the UK, including London.

2. Pre-Scan Inspection & Preparation

Your project manager assesses each book and carries out any light pre-scan cleaning or repairs for the best possible digital output.

3. Scanning & Digitisation

Each publication is scanned using industry-leading book digitisation equipment. Text OCR and image processing are applied where required.

4. Secure Digital Delivery

Your files are delivered via encrypted cloud link

Ready to place an order? Click here to fill in the online order form

Book Scanning Service UK - FAQs

Can I have the original book returned?

Yes — you choose whether we return it, store it or dispose of it.

What types of books can you scan?

We scan almost any bound publication, including journals, magazines, manuals, historic books, diaries, notebooks, newspapers and research papers.

How accurate is OCR?

OCR is highly accurate. Minor errors may occur on damaged or stylised pages, but the majority of text is read correctly.

Do you offer book scanning near me?

Yes — we operate across the entire UK.

How long does book scanning take?

Most projects are completed within 4–5 working days. Urgent turnaround is available.

Can I scan books myself with an app?

DIY apps can’t match the image quality, colour accuracy or OCR performance of professional book scanning equipment — especially for large or fragile books.

Are you accredited?

ISO Accreditation Icon Yes. ProScan Document Imaging is certified to ISO 9001:2015 for quality management in document scanning.

Book Scanning Costs

Pricing varies based on:

Page count
Book size and condition
Colour vs greyscale scanning
Resolution requirements
OCR and output formats
Destructive vs non-destructive scanning

For a tailored quote, you can call us — but the fastest way to get started is online:
View pricing and place your order here

Trusted Book Scanning Company UK

ProScan Digital Imaging is an established UK book scanning company, providing reliable, high-quality digitisation services for businesses, charities, individuals, publishers and public sector organisations nationwide.