Once all the magazine pages have been scanned (I usually can fit the entire magazine in at once), I set my scanner to save the scans as a single, searchable PDF then just walk away from it for a while the OCR does its thing. Magazines average 100 pages and have less text then most books with 100 pages so the time necessary runs about 1/2 to one hour. My scanner used ABBY Finereader for the OCR and Adobe Acrobat to make the PDFs (both included with the scanner). I get only half a dozen magazines a month so the time involved isn't that bad, especially if I do only one a day.
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