No need to chop it up. We have a device in my Library which is exquisitely expensive that actually turns each page of the book, and scans it. We are digitizing all the books which are damaged by age.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Dalliard
Scanning a pbook is not as tough as it once was.
If you are prepared to chop the book up, you could quite easily scan a 1000 page novel to a pdf at 600dpi in around 20 minutes on a half-decent copier.
You could then feed that into the latest ABBYY finereader and OCR it with 99.9% accuracy, with original formatting, in around 2 hours on a sufficiently powerful PC.
What's more, both stages are fully automated processes.
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