E
eric veller
Dear Scanners,
I am new to scanning and need some advice from experienced experts,
because I am considering investing a lot of money and time in a
scanning system, and there is no way for me to know ahead of time how
good the system would be in say 6 months.
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Here is what I want:
I have a lot of textbooks (and other books) I would like to scan into
searchable text format. That way I can quickly find info I am looking
for. I do not need diagrams. I do not even think I need font
information, maybe.
I want to be able to search course texts easily and quickly.
I would only use textbooks that I had purchased, and would strip the
covers and cut the bindings first to make them scannable. I plan to
scan about 10000 pages a semester (so at least 20000 pages a year).
For the hardware, I was thinking about something like the HP Scanjet
8290.
1. Does this sound like a reasonable idea?
2. How good are the OCR programs on such text? What is a good one to
buy? How much disk space am I looking at?
3. Any hardware suggestions? Clearly a duplex feeder, speed, and
reliability are needed, but no color capability is needed and no
high-res is needed since its just for OCR.
4. If you have other suggestions or advice that's fine.
I am new to scanning and need some advice from experienced experts,
because I am considering investing a lot of money and time in a
scanning system, and there is no way for me to know ahead of time how
good the system would be in say 6 months.
---------------------
Here is what I want:
I have a lot of textbooks (and other books) I would like to scan into
searchable text format. That way I can quickly find info I am looking
for. I do not need diagrams. I do not even think I need font
information, maybe.
I want to be able to search course texts easily and quickly.
I would only use textbooks that I had purchased, and would strip the
covers and cut the bindings first to make them scannable. I plan to
scan about 10000 pages a semester (so at least 20000 pages a year).
For the hardware, I was thinking about something like the HP Scanjet
8290.
1. Does this sound like a reasonable idea?
2. How good are the OCR programs on such text? What is a good one to
buy? How much disk space am I looking at?
3. Any hardware suggestions? Clearly a duplex feeder, speed, and
reliability are needed, but no color capability is needed and no
high-res is needed since its just for OCR.
4. If you have other suggestions or advice that's fine.