best OCR scanner??
Gary Kline
kline at tao.thought.org
Fri Sep 2 10:08:13 PDT 2005
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 03:01:12AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 9/1/05, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> > People,
> >
> > I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright
> > book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is
> > and if there has been substantial improvement in OCR
> > software in recent years. This book has few footnotes
> > or different typefaces, so it should make things easier.
> >
> > Oh, an if there is something that plugs into DOS/DOZE
> > and just works, super. I'lll use my W2K box. (Hopefully,
> > something that plugs into COM0 or COM1. USB okay too.)
> >
>
> Any scanner will work when your scanning a 2 tone document! The only
> thing that matters is the OCR software and their is only one game in
> town, OmniPage Pro by scansoft.
Well, the book I want to scan is from 1913:: just text.
Does this scanner work with FreeBSD? or only Windows?
>
> BTW it's faster (and won't damage the book) to photograph the book and
> then crop and covert to B&W, white balance, contrast, etc in photoshop
> or gimp etc., and then import the photos into the OCR software. The
> OCR software should produce less errors too.
Okay, can do; thanks.
>
> After all is done post the book on gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/
>
> oh, you should be able to fine some tips about scanning books at the
> gutenberg site too.
Yep; that's my idea. I've volunteered for PG, just never
at the scanning level.
gary
>
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