Wired.com has a great set of photographs detailing the process that goes into scanning books for the Internet Archive’s text project.
The process isn’t what I envisioned… I expected something that would look like it came from the radiology department of your local hospital rather than that relatively normal Canon EOS SLR digital cameras. Of course, to gain a bit of perspective, one needs to see just how upscale these cameras are
found via HangingTogether.org