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Old 02-22-2008, 08:26 AM   #14
redbaron101
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Originally Posted by aru View Post
If you are scanning a lot of books, try the Plustek Opticbook 3600. Together with the bundled software it helps tremendously. If you set the treshhold for b/w properly there are very little errors on the OCR file afterwards. In other words it is immediately readable. The time it takes to scan a book is similar to copying it on a copy machine. Frees some time to actually read the book...
I've used ABBYY Finreader, its a bit expensive, but a very good ocr if your converting a lot, plus it converts pdfs fairly well too and can save to a large number of different formats lit, txt, html, rft, doc etc.
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