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Old 08-14-2006, 04:14 PM   #3
Bob Russell
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You're absolutely right, ath, that's probably a bit open-ended. And there are definitely tradeoffs. I'll try to zoom in a bit more to a specific likely scenario. (And I also emphasized my question in the original post, so it doesn't get lost in the verbage!)

Let's say we want to be able to do it with hardware/software combos in the $100-$600 range (not including the PC, of course) . And let's say that we don't want to spend more than 3-4 "attended" man hours on the whole operation... prepping, scanning, OCR and creating the text file for a 500 page book.

Any unattended time, say overnight unattended processing, would not count in the time requirement.

Is this possible, or still a bit out of the reach of current technology?
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