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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
If I'm not being distracted by something like the TV (face it, scsanning books, even with an ADF, is boring as watching grass grow), I can scan a 200-250 page book (without OCR) in in an average of 10-15 minutes, including scanning the covers in color, scanning the pages, combining the covers and pages, and checking for oddball margins. The only way I could do that with OCR in 2.5 hours (I'm slow) is to edit with a spell checker and accept there will be capitalization errors, etc. that a spell checker can't catch.
If doing only an occasional book, 2.5 hours might be acceptable but when one has a large number of books and/or larger books we are wanting to digitize, 2.5 hours becomes intolerable. My goal of finishing digitizing my book collection by the end of the year is possible when scanning without OCR (it always can be "OCRed" later). If I were to scan with OCR and editing, it would take me almost four years to finish. I'm 61; I don't have that kind of time.
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That's really good to know. Ten to 15 minutes per book is about what I'd be willing to assign myself (or some kid). It would take forever to scan all my books, otherwise, and there's no point starting if I just end up running out of steam.
I'm pretty tolerant of spelling and punctuation errors, so I think I could make do with OK scans. I edit for a living and pretty much turn off my editing mode when it comes to leisure reading. Otherwise, errors would ruin reading for me.