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Hi,
My experience with scanning is as follows:
- opticbook 3600 scanner (~250$) with decent ocr included (abby)
- I scan double page, 300 dpi, b&w, tif or pbm (mostly tif but sometimes pbm is easier to manipulate)
- I do 10 pages (5 dp sheets) per minute for hc/tp, 14 p per minute pb and just watch a movie on my portable dvd player when scanning
- pc does the ocr in about 20-30 minutes per book and I just send word and then text since that eliminates most strange characters
- since everything is for my personal use, I do not bother correcting, the software is good enough for the results to be nicely readable (once you get used with several quirks like "die" instead of "the" sometimes)
I have done maybe 20 books and read about 5 fully on my Nokia 770 or Ebookwise 1150, partially from others. Also you can do picture books and embed the scanned pages (maybe transformed to jpg) in html to read on pc/tablet with uBook, though I do it rarely since I do not like reading fiction on pc/tablet/laptop.
Hope this helps,
Liviu
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