He was never famous or successful, but he made a living as an author.

I have most of his books that have been handed down. They are old and fragile.

The books do not exist in any eBook format and I would like to create an eBook of each of his paper books.

These can then be made available free of charge on the net and, be given to libraries if they are at all interested (probably not)

The process must be nondestructive.

Ripping out each page and feeding it through a scanner is probably the fastest and perhaps easiest way of doing it but I will not do that.

I have a flatbed scanner and a document scanner and a cellphone.

I have tried to arrange a stand above the book to keep it at a fixed distance from a camera. I have problems with the pages since they do not lay down flat and a lot depends on how far into the book I go.

The first issue then is developing a process to copy/scan each page. I am stuck here.

Then the next would be compiling them, adjusting scans correcting flaws, maybe re scan.

Then some form of OCR

and then actually making en eBook out of it all.

I can make a regular PDF file but I have never tried to make an epub file, not sure how to do that.

I want the books to be in as good a shape as they were when I started when I am done.

Any tips?