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katysax · 10-09-2009, 06:13 PM

Fujitsu Scansnap S1500 scans directly to PDF and comes with a reduced version of AABBYY. It has a document feeder that works quite well for up to about 30 pages at a time, and reads double sided. If I take a book to Kinkos or somewhere similar and have them cut off the spine for about $3, I can feed the book 30 pages at a time into the Scansnap. Scans a page in a few seconds. Works best to then feed it into the OCR and clean it up. With minimal cleanup a 300 page book can be scanned and converted in about a half hour. It's quite readable - not good enough to distribute but easy enough to read. Since my goal is conversion for myself, it works fine.

10-09-2009, 06:13 PM	#72
katysax Enthusiast Posts: 44 Karma: 222 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Los Angeles Device: Kindle2, Kindle DX, prs 505	Fujitsu Scansnap S1500 scans directly to PDF and comes with a reduced version of AABBYY. It has a document feeder that works quite well for up to about 30 pages at a time, and reads double sided. If I take a book to Kinkos or somewhere similar and have them cut off the spine for about $3, I can feed the book 30 pages at a time into the Scansnap. Scans a page in a few seconds. Works best to then feed it into the OCR and clean it up. With minimal cleanup a 300 page book can be scanned and converted in about a half hour. It's quite readable - not good enough to distribute but easy enough to read. Since my goal is conversion for myself, it works fine.