Hello!

I has been a very long time since I posted anything here. But.....

I am trying to scan in all of the books I have bought over my life. I recently bought a VEVOR scanner (you can see it on Amazon). Easy to set up - works.

In the current setup the images come out dark and colors are not quite right. I use a CosCo fold-up table which can support up to around 50lbs. The table is flat black. I use colored poster board backgrounds to offset the color of the book. These are Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow. What I do is to put the book under the clear plastic sheet and scan the image. This works but as I said - the images are dark.

What I'd like to do is to have a light above the table that ramps up how much light the scanner is getting and thus make the images brighter and closer to their actual colors.

What I have tried is: 1)Use a regular lamp - causes reflections and flares, 2)Have a lamp pointed at the ceiling - flares (somewhat) and/or I also get an image of the lamp, 3)Bought a photographer's light, set it up, nice colors and tone but you can see the umbrella, and 4)Thinking of getting some low wattage frosted lights but haven't gotten them yet.

The problem that happens is that the clear plastic sheet creates flares where the light is brightest. I could just get a flat bed scanner out and scan the books but this scanner is ten times faster than the flat bed scanner (it is over 10 years old). So I was wondering if any has ever come up against this and figured out a way to scan an image through a clear plastic sheet without getting images of the light source or flares from the light source.

Thanks in advance for any kind of feedback and I think I might just have to go get the flatbed scanner out and use it. :-/

Mark