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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
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.
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If FineReader is part of your workflow (i.e. for creating OCR'ed text or PDF from image files), tell it to scan odd pages forwards, and even pages backwards. (It's the 'Ask for page number before adding page to batch' option, then select 'odd and even separately'.)
As long as there's no double feed, everything works, but if it does scan two pages as one, it's usually rather messy to fix things up again as a number of odd or even pages have to be renumbered to make the missing page fit the scan sequence.