Patent ID: 8531740

Claim:
A scanning stand for imaging bound and unbound documents, comprising: (a) two inverted-V parts wherein the body of each said part has at least one surface and a hinged connection at the top and said hinged connection opens to form the same angle in both said parts and said angle that said hinged connection opens to is between 60 and 90 degrees, (b) a holder for a device equipped with a digital camera wherein said holder has the ability to hold bodies of various devices equipped with a digital camera in parallel to the imaging surface and said devices include cell phones, tablets and webcams, (c) a connecting element that attaches said holder to at least one said part wherein said part with said holder attached to it becomes the holding part, (d) a surface on the second inverted-V part for placing a document wherein said surface becomes the imaging surface and said second inverted-V part becomes the imaging part, (e) a surface on the first inverted V part for turning pages of said document wherein said surface becomes the turning surface, whereby when a device equipped with a digital camera is placed in said holding part, the body of said device is parallel to said imaging surface and the distance between the lens of said camera and the imaging surface is suitable for capturing images of document pages without the need for time consuming adjustments.