Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:08:10 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: best OCR scanner?? Message-ID: <20050902170810.GC76575@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0509020101142c8fb0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050902030726.GA71012@thought.org> <ef10de9a0509020101142c8fb0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 03:01:12AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 9/1/05, Gary Kline <kline@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 > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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