[guylhem]

Hello

I have a large physical ebook collection, and a problem : I want to carry along with me when I move, which I frequently do.

In fact, I have been thinking about that for a long time, but since I will soon be relocating across the Atlantic ocean, I want to act now.

What hardware could you recommand ?

My books are nowhere to be found online - legally or not. I do not want to waste anymore time looking for each individual ebook, and therefore I am totally ready to destroy my books in the process (cut the bindings).

So I am looking for an efficient page-fed scanner for normal ebooks, ie smaller than A4/legal, for a decent price.

Decent is defined by efficiency :-) Something that could do all my books in a week would be worth $2000 or more. Something else is worth much less.

Ideally, it would create PDFs with a pictures of each page, and a transparent overlay of the OCR'ed text for easy indexation.

If it would work with Linux or MacOSX, it would be even better, but I could certainly borrow a Windows laptop for a while.

Guylhem