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Ceryta · 04-27-2011, 02:26 AM

I have a newbie question. I am going to start scanning my paperback books soon. I have about 3,000. I don't need to be able to edit the text once I scan it. I did a couple of sample scans and the pages are readable. I am reading on a netbook and not an ereader. So do I have to OCR each of the books? Can I just use the scanned pages as my final product? I have read that the files can very large if you don't use OCR, but how big is big? The average number of pages for my paperback books is 350-400. I will be scanning everything in black/white. All the pages are just plain text. The only images will be the front and back covers. Thank you for any help.

04-27-2011, 02:26 AM	#1
Ceryta Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: netbook	Do I have to OCR? I have a newbie question. I am going to start scanning my paperback books soon. I have about 3,000. I don't need to be able to edit the text once I scan it. I did a couple of sample scans and the pages are readable. I am reading on a netbook and not an ereader. So do I have to OCR each of the books? Can I just use the scanned pages as my final product? I have read that the files can very large if you don't use OCR, but how big is big? The average number of pages for my paperback books is 350-400. I will be scanning everything in black/white. All the pages are just plain text. The only images will be the front and back covers. Thank you for any help.