How much should I charge for PDF conversion?

Um…300 pages would be $15.00…..

I say you don’t charge anything. Sites like Zamzar do it for free. And it actually seems to work pretty well when I’ve tried it.

@JilltheTooth Whoops

@dvhery I mean actually taking books, or study notes and scanning them in high quality into a PDF. I also have software to extract the text and images and make them into a word or text document,

Unfortunately, anyone with a MFC printer or scanner and Open Office can do it on their own computer.

@HungryGuy True but there is a universite close to where I live, and I’m not sure that many of them have a printer/scanner, because there are loads of copiers everywhere, and with tuition payments and all.

Keep in mind the time spent meeting with people to collect the actual documents and have them explain what they want. That could take ten minutes. Maybe your scanner is faster than mine but mine takes about 20 seconds for a page. Then you have to deal with all the scanned files assembling them in to a PDF and making sure they are in the right order.

I could see three hundred pages taking three hours hours to do tedious work. Taco Bell pays better.

Why would anyone pay for that when there are so many ways to do it for free?

@johnpowell Hmm, I’d say maybe 10 seconds, but yeah, it would be tedious, I figured this was a dead end.

@MrItty Not everyone has a scanner or the time, or the knowhow.

No scanner is required. Nothing is required beyond a postscript printer driver. Really, nothing is required beyond the ability to type “convert to PDF” into Google.

@MrItty You obviously havent read everything. I’m talking about taking PHYSICAL documents and making them DIGITAL

… oh. My apologies. You’re right, I did miss that. Sorry.

@MrItty No problem :3

You should delete this question. It’s like posting the skeleton to FaceBook and having Zuckerberg steal the whole thing and getting it up and running before you. Hah, but I’d go with a system like this.

50 Pages: 150 $
75 Pages: 200 $
150 Pages: 225 $
200 Pages: 250 $
300 Pages: 275 $

Okay, maybe those prices seem ridiculous. But someones got to do it? You think pennies, you get pennies. You think dollars, you get dollars. I’m curious though. There is some copyright infringement going on right?

@dreamwolf No, it would be for students who want to use an E-reader, or laptop and have their notes more mobile.

You can’t copy published works in that manner.

@dreamwolf Those prices are insane. $150 would be the textbook itself.

@XOIIO This sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen, but if you want to risk it… I still would have trouble thinking students would be willing to pay more $0.05 a page. There are free options.

Well there goes my buisness empire XD

Haha, I mean, anyone can just scan a page at home and save as PDF anyhow. Hmm… I’m a college student. Thanks ! I will just borrow a text book from the library for per class and since I can’t take the text book out, I’ll photo snap them, and then pdf. Great Question!