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Old 03-15-2008, 05:27 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Halk View Post
I've no intention of doing it myself, but just out of interest, now that you're adept at it, how much time are you talking about to "rip" a book?
For my method (i.e. cutting the spine off & feeding it through my double side scanner with autometic feed & using ABBYY Finereader) it usually takes about 20 minutes to cut & scan. The OCR varies based on the page size & print quality - and to a lesser to the print font. For a typical paperback book about 2 - 3 hours finding and correcting OCR mistakes. They don't all show up with spell checker & I've found some common OCR errors to look for. These can be fixed with a global find/replace.
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