Yes, I've found a few services and they are a bit pricey for a "one-up" application. They make a lot of sense (or "cents") for someone who plans to scan a book for distribution, but relatively expensive for doing a book for one's own use.

The automated scanners with a page turning mechanism are ideal when you need to keep the book intact. But a much more cost effective solution is "destructive scanning". In this case, the covers are removed, the pages are scanned through a standard document feeder, and the book is eventually destroyed. Not only is this less expensive to do, it results in a considerably better final copy. Although you lose the original book, this is OK for me, as I'm not planning on taking the books with me anyway. The books that I've done myself were done this way. I just kept the originals in case I ever needed to re-do them in the future.

One site that I've found is http://blueleaf-book-scanning.com I don't know anyone who's used them, but their website gives the impression that they are probably a pretty good service. As a comparison, I looked at doing 10 books of 500 pages each, with both "destructive" and "non-destructive" scanning. Destructive would cost $495 and non-destructive would cost $365 (into searchable PDFs). Of course, I have a lot more than 10 books to do.

Anyone familiar with less expensive services?