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Originally Posted by Iain
I have 5000 paperbacks and want to scan them.
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Unless you have a staff of 100 people ready to work on this project full-time, the best advice I can give you is to forget it.
It's fair to say it takes around an hour to scan a book to image format (no OCR, no conversion, no corrections). That means it will take you over 208 days, working 24/7 around the clock without any breaks, to turn your collection into a huge number of jpegs. It will take several multiples of that time to turn that stack of jpegs into something that is readable, depending on the amount of proofreading you perform.
If you have a few highly-prized books that are out-of-print and unlikely to be released as ebooks, then scanning and converting them would be a worthwhile project that you could perform in a few months of spare time. If your goal is to scan an entire library on your own before you die of old age, then you're chasing a rainbow.