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Old 10-07-2006, 06:25 PM   #17
Bob Russell
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I do have some questions. Actually lots of questions!...

1) Has anyone got a good inexpensive method of scanning paperbacks quickly? It seems that if you are willing to tear the pages out (I assume that isn't too hard with an exacto knife if you don't care about destroying the book), you should be able to scan quickly with an auto sheetfeeder. That would be useful if there's a good ocr program that can handle odd page scans and then followed by all the even page scans, and deal gracefully with crooked pages or rescans.

Has anyone found a way to do this?

2) Which Epson Perfection scanner do you have, Studio717? Is it big enough for hardbacks, 2 pp per scan? How fast does it do a pair of pages, and what resolution do you use? Does it have any OCR sw, or do you use Abby from the Optibook for that?
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