Sourcing + Scanning for AI Training

We source the books. We scan them. You train your model.

End-to-end physical book acquisition and digitization for AI labs. Bring us a list — or just a spec — and we deliver clean, lawfully-sourced PDFs at scale, from our US scanning facilities.

30M+
Titles in Annual Sourcing Network
1M+
Titles in Active Inventory
10 yrs
In Physical Book Operations
50K
Books Scanned per Week
Trusted by

Leading frontier AI labs, enterprise AI teams, and government research programs.

We don't name our clients. That's the point.

Why Books

The cleanest training data
still lives on paper.

Web scrapes are noisy, fragmented, and increasingly contested. Books are edited, peer-reviewed, structured by chapter, and rich with the long-form reasoning that frontier models need to keep improving — and they're available, lawfully, by the millions.

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Highest-Quality Source

Edited, fact-checked, and curated by subject experts over decades — the gold standard for structured, long-form knowledge.

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Naturally Indexed

Every book is inherently categorized by subject, genre, and discipline — ideal for precise, targeted domain training.

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Unmatched Depth

From peer-reviewed scientific texts to rare historical works — coverage and depth no web scrape can replicate.

Compliance

The legally defensible path to book data.

Recent rulings have made one thing clear: how you acquire training data matters as much as how you train on it. Pirated datasets have triggered nine- and ten-figure settlements. Physically-sourced, lawfully-owned books have not.

We buy the books. We own the books. We scan the books we own. Every order ships with a clean chain of custody — invoices, ISBNs, receipts, and an NDA — so your legal team has a defensible paper trail before the first page is digitized.

And we don't stop at the scan. We help prepare the legal documentation your team needs, handle post-scan destruction on request, and run content deduplication across your order so you're never paying twice for the same book.

01 — FIRST SALE

Lawful Physical Ownership

Every book is purchased through wholesale channels. Once owned, it's ours to scan — the doctrine that's protected libraries and resellers for over a century.

02 — CHAIN OF CUSTODY

Full Procurement Records

Invoices, ISBNs, source ledgers, and scan timestamps for every title. Documentation built for legal review, not just delivery.

03 — ZERO PIRACY EXPOSURE

No Books3, No LibGen, No Z-Library

Nothing in our pipeline touches gray-market or pirated sources. Ever. Your model never inherits someone else's lawsuit.

04 — NDA STANDARD

Confidential by Default

Every engagement runs under NDA. Your sourcing list, subject focus, and delivery details remain entirely between us.

05 — LEGAL DOCUMENTATION

Paperwork Built for Counsel

We prepare the full documentation package your legal team needs — purchase invoices, ISBN-level provenance ledgers, ownership attestations, and scan-completion records, formatted for review and audit.

06 — POST-SCAN DESTRUCTION

Verified Disposal on Request

Once your dataset is delivered, we can destroy and recycle the physical books on your behalf — with a signed certificate of destruction. The same model that's already been validated in court for AI training data acquisition.

07 — DEDUPLICATION

Pay Once Per Unique Title

Different editions, reprints, translations, and content overlaps quietly inflate book orders. We dedupe across ISBNs, editions, and content fingerprints before sourcing — so you're not paying twice for the same material.

How It Works

From your spec
to your training pipeline.

LibrisX is a one-stop shop for AI training data, when that data needs to come from books. You bring the spec — an ISBN list, a subject area, a language, an era, a volume target — and we handle everything from procurement through delivery.

Books are sourced through our wholesale network, received at our scanning facilities, processed on industrial Fujitsu lines, and delivered to you as clean PDFs (or your preferred format) with full metadata and a complete chain-of-custody record.

100%
Lawfully sourced &
physically owned
01

You Send the Spec

An ISBN list, a subject brief, or just a target — language, era, volume. We help shape the order if you don't have specifics.

02

We Source the Books

Procured through our wholesale network with access to 30M+ unique titles annually. Bulk pricing, full invoicing.

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Receipt & Inventory

Books arrive at our scanning facilities, are catalogued by ISBN, and queued for the scanning line.

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Industrial Scanning

Custom Fujitsu high-speed scanners running 24/7. Up to 600 dpi, full color or grayscale, OCR-ready output.

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Delivery

Clean PDFs (searchable or image), plain text, or your preferred format. Delivered with metadata and chain-of-custody documentation.

Our Operation

Industrial-grade
infrastructure.

Seven years building one of the largest physical book operations in North America — now purpose-built for AI training pipelines.

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Three US Facilities

200,000 sq. ft. of combined operational space across three US sites. Built for high-throughput receiving, sorting, scanning, and outbound logistics.

Scanning Hardware

Custom-modified Fujitsu industrial scanners engineered for continuous 24/7 operation — sustaining tens of thousands of books per week of consistent, audit-ready output.

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Sourcing Network

Established wholesale relationships with access to 30M+ unique titles per year across subjects, languages, and eras. We can fulfill ISBN lists or curate by spec.

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Capacity at a Glance

Sourcing Network30M+ titles / year
Active Inventory1M+ books on hand
Scan Throughput50,000 books / week
12-Month Target7M scanned dataset
Who We Serve

Built for every
AI training program.

From frontier model labs to government research initiatives — book datasets sourced and scanned to your spec, at any scale.

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AI Labs & LLM Companies

High-volume book corpora for pre-training and fine-tuning frontier models. Domain-diverse or subject-specific runs available.

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Government & Defense

Sovereign, US-based, NDA-bound delivery. Historical, multilingual, policy and scientific literature curated to your requirements.

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Research Institutions

Academic pricing available. Rare, niche, and scientific literature — for university labs, national research centers, and digital humanities projects.

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Enterprise AI Teams

Custom vertical book sets for legal, medical, financial, and technical domains — sourced and scanned to your model's specific needs.

Subject Coverage

Any subject.
Any depth. On demand.

Our sourcing network reaches across hundreds of disciplines. Whether you need a broad multi-domain corpus or a tightly targeted vertical, we build the order to your exact spec.

30M+ titles across hundreds of disciplines — sourceable individually or in combination
Sciences & Engineering
BiologyMolecular BiologyGeneticsBiochemistryMicrobiologyEcologyEvolutionary BiologyNeuroscienceCognitive ScienceChemistryOrganic ChemistryPhysical ChemistryAnalytical ChemistryPhysicsQuantum PhysicsTheoretical PhysicsApplied PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyCosmologySpace ScienceMathematicsApplied MathematicsStatisticsProbabilityComputational MathematicsComputer ScienceAlgorithmsData StructuresMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceDeep LearningNatural Language ProcessingRoboticsCybersecurityCryptographySoftware EngineeringElectrical EngineeringMechanical EngineeringCivil EngineeringAerospace EngineeringBiomedical EngineeringMaterials ScienceNanotechnologyQuantum Computing
Medicine & Health
MedicineInternal MedicineSurgeryOncologyCardiologyNeurologyPsychiatryPharmacologyAnatomyPhysiologyPathologyImmunologyVirologyEpidemiologyPublic HealthNutritionRadiologyPediatricsGeriatricsDermatologyOphthalmologyDentistryVeterinary Medicine
Social Sciences & Humanities
EconomicsMacroeconomicsMicroeconomicsBehavioral EconomicsFinanceAccountingBusiness ManagementMarketingLawConstitutional LawInternational LawCriminal LawPolitical ScienceInternational RelationsHistoryAncient HistoryModern HistoryMilitary HistoryPhilosophyEthicsLogicLinguisticsAnthropologySociologyPsychologyCognitive PsychologyBehavioral PsychologyEducationGeographyArchaeologyReligion & Theology
Arts, Literature & Culture
LiteratureFictionClassic LiteratureScience FictionHistorical FictionPoetryDramaArt HistoryArchitectureMusic TheoryFilm StudiesCultural StudiesJournalismCommunication
Other Technical Domains
AgricultureForestryMarine ScienceGeologyClimatologyEnvironmental ScienceUrban PlanningTransportationLogisticsEnergyNuclear ScienceOpticsAcoustics

Don't see your niche? Every order is custom-built.

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Pricing

Sourced & scanned,
priced to scale.

All tiers include sourcing, scanning, OCR, and full chain-of-custody documentation. Volume discounts apply automatically.

Standard
$X /book
Up to 10,000 books
  • End-to-end sourcing & scanning
  • Searchable PDF + OCR text delivery
  • Metadata & ISBN catalog included
  • Full chain-of-custody records
  • Standard delivery: 30–60 days
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Enterprise
$X /book
100,000 – 1,000,000+ books
  • Multi-warehouse parallel processing
  • Custom delivery formats supported
  • Sourcing exclusivity windows
  • On-site quality auditing available
  • Roadmap & quarterly throughput planning
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Custom Build
On
Request
You define the spec
  • Subject-specific curation
  • Language & era filtering
  • Exclusivity windows available
  • Government & research pricing
  • Full compliance documentation
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Contact

Start your order.

Tell us what you need. Our team responds within 24 hours with a tailored proposal and timeline.

Facilities
3 US-based
scanning sites
Current Throughput
50K
books scanned per week