Our experienced technicians ensure a 'once only digital scan'. When the digital images are prepared, you are able to take the books away and store securely. Our non-destructive book scanning service is ideal for rare, precious, and valuable books upto A1 in size . Using state-of-the-art Book-Eye overhead scanners with archival book-cradles, books are digitised intact without the worry of bindings becoming untact or damaged. With specialist software books are scanned 24-bit or 16-bit . Digital output include Archival TIFF/RAW, JPEG, PDF (PDFA) and PDF OCR (searchable content), multipage PDFs, WORD or eBooks. Delivery can be via hard drive, electronic download or secure FTP.
Calculate Your Book Scanning Cost
Select the book size, digital output, capture method, number of pages and number of books to calculate an estimated scanning cost.
Non-Destructive Book Scanning Price List
Professional non-destructive scanning for books, manuscripts, journals, registers and bound volumes. Prices shown are per page and exclude VAT.
Non-Destructive Book Scanning up to A3
High-quality non-destructive scanning for bound volumes up to A3. Suitable for archival, preservation, research and access copies.
| Quantity | TIFF | |
|---|---|---|
| 1–250 pages | £1.00 pp | £0.75 pp |
| 251–999 pages | £0.75 pp | £0.55 pp |
| 1,000+ pages | £0.55 pp | £0.35 pp |
Non-Destructive Book Scanning up to A2
Specialist large-format book scanning for registers, ledgers, newspapers and other bound material requiring careful, non-destructive handling.
| Quantity | TIFF | |
|---|---|---|
| 1–250 pages | £1.25 pp | £1.00 pp |
| 251–999 pages | £1.00 pp | £0.75 pp |
| 1,000+ pages | £0.75 pp | £0.55 pp |
Non-Destructive Book Scanning up to A1
Specialist large-format scanning for newspapers, registers, ledgers and very large bound volumes.
| Quantity | TIFF | |
|---|---|---|
| 1–250 pages | £1.50 pp | £1.25 pp |
| 251–999 pages | £1.25 pp | £1.00 pp |
| 1,000+ pages | £1.00 pp | £0.75 pp |
All prices exclude VAT at 20%.
Prices are indicative and based on standard non-destructive scanning. Complex, fragile, unusually constructed or difficult-to-handle books and bound volumes may require an additional technical service charge. We will advise you before quotation approval.
Single-page and double-page spread capture can be discussed depending on the construction, condition and opening characteristics of the book.
Specialist Scanning Services
Professional digitisation for books, manuscripts, documents and heritage collections.
Have a journal collection to digitise?
Tell us about the size, condition and quantity of your collection and we can advise on the most appropriate scanning approach.

