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Old 03-17-2010, 03:00 PM   #1
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Old 03-17-2010, 03:10 PM   #2
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wow! that's hugely impressive! wonder how clean it is!?
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Old 03-17-2010, 03:32 PM   #3
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The image should be pretty clean, so long as you have decent light. I think the real challenge will be in the page turning mechanism
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Old 03-17-2010, 03:56 PM   #4
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This goes in the category of "copies will never be harder to make than they are right now."

Eventually, scanning & converting pbooks to ebooks will be as simple & available as converting tapes or vinyl to mp3--not everyone will have the hardware, but everyone will know it can be done, and anyone who wants to do it, can find someone with the devices & software to make it work.
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Old 03-18-2010, 07:40 AM   #5
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It's my experience that the bottle neck time wise is proofing and correction of the output from OCR.
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Old 03-18-2010, 08:50 AM   #6
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If you put them on the internet, lots of people will do the proof reading for you
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It's my experience that the bottle neck time wise is proofing and correction of the output from OCR.
The software is getting much better at giving you a good readable document even if it is not perfect yet. I think in another 10 years, there will need to be very little correcting of these type documents.
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Old 03-26-2010, 07:42 PM   #8
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"another 10 years", right.

Orrrr you could look into OCROpus, Google's scanning tool.
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