01-12-2010, 08:11 PM | #1 |
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How do you keep your sanity? scanning a book
I have decided to scan an old favorite book that is not in ebook format yet. Well............ its making me a bit crazy. I have done less than 50 pages and have about 350 more to go and wondering is it really this difficult or am I just slow?
I'm using a basic scanner/printer- can feed pages - but only about 10 at a time. My biggest problem : there are 2 sides to every page!!! EEK Its making me batty to reorder these pages from 2,4,6,8 to 1,2,3,4 .I can't imagine doing this for 400 pages. No plans for purchase another scanner anytime soon How are people handling scanning from a flat bed scanner- any tips or advice welcome. |
01-12-2010, 09:13 PM | #2 | |
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01-12-2010, 09:17 PM | #3 |
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Ha!
I have been engaged in a huge bilingual scanning and OCRing project for the past few months. On a good night I can get through 400 pages, while watching a movie or something. The most difficult thing is that the books are encyclopaedia-like volumes and, therefore are rather heavy. I have about another 4000 pages to go. |
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Epson V30 --> Finereader 8. Can scan roughly 300-400 pages an hour while watching a movie.
Another 1-2 hours for checking the marked sequences in Finereader. Export to Word. Another 1-2 hours for the basic layout. |
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Software matters. Some programs make the scanning go easier by absorbing pages as quickly as the scanner can read them; others make you click through something to save out each page as it's scanned. Quote:
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01-28-2010, 08:35 AM | #8 |
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Yep it is very dizzying! Will put this project on hold for now. Too time consuming. To top things off my PDF creater software does not keep the pages in proper order even though I make the files named book1, book2, book3 etc. Having to rearranage every PDF of 50 pages is....
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01-28-2010, 08:43 AM | #10 |
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[QUOTE=Elfwreck;739649]Hardware matters. A scanner that will read both sides of the page at once changes things a lot. So does a faster scanner--but they cost more. Sometimes a lot more.
Software matters. Some programs make the scanning go easier by absorbing pages as quickly as the scanner can read them; others make you click through something to save out each page as it's scanned. I agree- will wait until I can get a better scanner and software.This one side at a time and reording pages is not fun. Putting this task on hold for now. My love for this book has tappered off with each page scanned , edited and reordered Last edited by mypolar; 01-28-2010 at 08:45 AM. Reason: quote |
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