Digitizing Old Magazines?

"I have a lot of old video game magazines, they're nice for playing 'classic games' because a lot of classics are impossible without the manual, and hard without a magazine (the magazine obviously negates the need for a manual usually). But they'd get damaged with a flatbed scanner, and digital cameras are hard to set up right for capturing old magazines. I know that old documents are digitally archived with very high-res cameras..." So, the question is, what is the best way to capture all the information in old magazines in digital format? Does anyone have a home-built rig taking after the angled-pair-of-scanners setup that Project Gutenburg uses?

Take another look at Java

[Anonymous Coward]

"best way" ... subjective.
"fastest way" ... Java, it's been (perfectly) digitizing and performing OCR on classic magazines and comics for years now. It's the clever new "Just-In-Time" virtual machines that make it possible, optimizing the character recognition routines dynamically at run time.
The end result? Code that scans (at least) 70 times faster than that produced with modern C++ compilers.
Even the best hand crafted classic-magazine scanning assembler only runs a fifth the speed of a Java app.

Let me guess...

[RabidMoose]

...this is probably the result of a "compromise" between you and your wife, because those old mags are taking up too much shelf space?

Team of monks

[gardyloo]

Rent a monestary. It's slow, but it'll add some value to your magazines.

Re:Don't destroy the magazines

[eclectro]

Europeans have no moral, ethical or legal obligation to pay for anything developed and sold by an American company.

Thems is invasion words.

Re:Same with old photographs

[toddestan]

You put as many photos as can fit on your flatbed scanner (no need to straighten them perfectly), scan the photos, and then click on File --> Automate --> Crop and Straighten Photos - this will break up all the scanned photos into individual files, arrange them so they are straight, after which you can then edit and save each one./i.

After scanning in nearly 7000 photos using Photoshop CS... how come no one ever tells me about these kind of things?

*facepalm*