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I may get a big order fer doing this ... I wanna get some info bout thjis from u guys ... whats the best software for doing this and a Good Scanner to buy.
i will have to convert a Library load of books to CD's !!
thx in adv 
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hm i dunno what you still smiling at but that does not sound like a lot of fun to me !  rofl 
no really, if it's books whoa i'd try to stay away from that.
The Fraunhofer Institute developed some crazy machines for digitalizing whole libraries / ocr them, it'll take you ages to do it with a regular scanner and ocr trace each page and remove / edit bugs.
scanner, hm i'd go for a nice heavy duty canon and for the regular user corel trace is a fine tool incorporated in their package but I would think that there is software out specializing in ocr tracing, I just haven't done it in a while (luckily) so wouldn't know what's hip.
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I'm a database archivist.. what I do is basically scann thousands of Lab reports and burn the reports onto CD and also upload to a database. I use a Fujitsu M4099D scanner, that can scan the front and back of pages at 300dpi about 1000 pages ever 20-25 minutes. Black and white. We scan at 300dpi cause that is the minumum for Adobe Capture 3.0. For scanning we use Ascent Capture 4.0 which lets us easily network our scanning on different scanners, lets us view the scans while it's scanning and gives us the oppurtunity to delete bad pages, rotate pages, rescan pages. We save the files as tif images and then put them on other PCs that will convert the tif's to pdf and ocr them. Adobe Acrobat Capture Professional Edition. As pdfs anyone can view them with free acrobat reader.. and if you have a color scanner you can use full color. You can then easily distribute online, email, CD-ROM etc. Once on cd or the web you can make the files interactive and junk with Adobe Acrobat 5.0. Sometimes we will make autorun CDs with multiple reports that are complete searchable and interactive with Table of Contents and all that stuff.
I imagine a good fast color scanner is expensive, as our black and white is expensive as it is. But we have a quick system and do tens of thousands of pages a month. when I say we I mean me.. cause i'm the one that does it.. LOL and yes it's verrryyyyy boring.
[Edited by Hellsbellboy on 04-11-2002 at 05:37 PM]
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thx guys for you r infos. Any more ?
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Originally posted by tublu
thx guys for you r infos. Any more ?
well, that would cost you. Your free tour is over with. . .
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well, in order for me to get more info on the subject, I'd have to buy it somewhere around the block here. Paying for that, I'd have to resell it to you somehow or else i'd go below ma zero which we all don't want to happen.
back to the topic now.
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