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I have been scanning books from my personal library for personal use.
Naively, I have been doing this with a Canon N620U, which is REALLY
slow (though otherwise quite ok).
I have also been trying to use a 7 Megapixel digital Nikon camera with
a tripod, but the main problem there is distorted images that my
Optical Character Recocnizer (OCR, I'm using Omniscan Pro) has trouble
turning into text.
I tried to survey the field of high speed scanners by Web searching for
entries like (scanner AND ppm), the ppm for pages per minute, but the
results are in the tens of thousands and bewildering.
Can anyone out there point me to some practical advice about affordable
scanners (or whatever alternatives there are) for scanning books, with
the aim of turning them into electronic text that can be OCRed?
(How does Google do this sort of thing for http://books.google.com/ ???
I'm sure "affordable" is not an object for them, though.)
Thanks for any advice and help,
Wolfgang,
Santa Barbara, CA
Naively, I have been doing this with a Canon N620U, which is REALLY
slow (though otherwise quite ok).
I have also been trying to use a 7 Megapixel digital Nikon camera with
a tripod, but the main problem there is distorted images that my
Optical Character Recocnizer (OCR, I'm using Omniscan Pro) has trouble
turning into text.
I tried to survey the field of high speed scanners by Web searching for
entries like (scanner AND ppm), the ppm for pages per minute, but the
results are in the tens of thousands and bewildering.
Can anyone out there point me to some practical advice about affordable
scanners (or whatever alternatives there are) for scanning books, with
the aim of turning them into electronic text that can be OCRed?
(How does Google do this sort of thing for http://books.google.com/ ???
I'm sure "affordable" is not an object for them, though.)
Thanks for any advice and help,
Wolfgang,
Santa Barbara, CA