Scanning the book and safeguarding it for future usage is actually a fantastic idea. With the invention of document scanner people have been scanning books. Its all because of the latest technology that books can be scanned with speed and amazing accuracy. Now specialized scanners hold the books in a v-shaped cradle and cameras take photographs of the opposing pages with very high speed and resolution.
Now even the modification has made it much more accurate. In the early days, using flatbed scanners, there were issues with shadows and curvature near the binding of the book. This curvature and shadowing would render text near the gutter illegible and made it a bit messy. But now the scanning solution has overcome it too. The overhead book scanner sought to resolve these issues by taking snap shots from above the book, however the problem of curvature was ever present. By using a v-shaped cradle, books sit open at approx. 45 degrees, a v-shaped glass screen is lowered onto the book which ensures that the pages lay flat. Once the screen is lowered, two cameras take photos of the pages. Software can then be used on the captured images to crop and then to Optical Character Recognition, extracting an editable text based version of the book. So no more trouble with book scanning now.
For the whole process its like book scanning companies will take your physical books and scan them onto their hard drives as high quality images. Books can be scanned either as they are, or they can be taken apart if you're not interested in the book being damaged which can often lead to a slightly cheaper price. Once this process is done, the images scanned onto the system will be converted to PDF files which are then sent for Optical Character Recognition conversion. Optical Character Recognition is, to put it simply, the process of making a PDF completely text searchable, so the PDF file will no longer be a flat image, but it will be dynamic. After this is done the text searchable PDF will be converted into the formats of your choice.

Its much better if we go for digitized form of our document. Let it be Book Scanning, microfilm scanning, form processing, cloud document management or converting paper to pdf format its all so easy and convenient with scanning solutions. No more hassles in carrying loads of papers together for even a single work. Scan and store the documents in a single electronic device and carry wherever you want.