[DDHarriman]

Hi Jim

I’m repeating what someone else said before, what you need is:
1 - Scanner - OpticBook 3600;
2 - Softwate - Finereader Pro or Omnipage Pro.

Forget the “speed” of a feeder, you need control from the beginning, thus thinking the workflow correctly is the key.

The Scanner - you can get full control of the book, directly from the book itself. No need to cut the binding, etc…
Also you can cut the extra stuff (heades/page numbers) directly when scanning - if they are easily independent in space from the rest of the text -, just by taking care to make the scanning area small enough to not get those “extra info” want scanning… just by doing this you can see the time spend recovered.
I can not call attention enough for the the book part of this scanner - it’s designed for books! so it’s optimized for it! -, in scanning speed, recovering curved spine problems (in a normal one you get back/grey) etc…

The software - get the last version of the one you choose - 10 for Finereader and 17 for Omnipage. I have found that every new version as been over the years an outstanding quantum leap from the last one.
My advice is, get Finereader just for one thing, it’s normally 1/2 to 1/3 cheaper the Omnipage.
But notice, both are top of the art.

Finally, it will take time.
Does not matter how shortcuts one takes, reverting from a analog text (paper) to digital, and if one does want to do it well, the result correctly formatted, etc… it takes time.
Managers of professional digitizing projects with that final objective always allocate some 60 to 75% time for proof reading a formatting at least.
So… the secret is to get the best OCR results - meaning the least errors and formatting problems, the best any of these last - and thus taking time to experience with the correct resolution of scanning, contrast, etc… before even beginning production… all the time one gets here, pays back fully in time not lost later.

Hope I was of some help, best regards,