Digitizing Your Dead Trees? 367
smart2000 asks: "I'm tired of lugging around dead trees. I've just moved offices and had to move over 100 pounds of 'essential' technical books. It is clear to me that the dead tree industry is never going to supply the books I want in electronic form, so it's time to do it myself. What hardware and software should I use?"
"The Plan: Take the binding of each book and cut it off. Feed into a scanner with duplex and cut-sheet feeder. Scan as a 300 DPI jpeg with compression. Then OCR them overnight. I don't expect the OCR to be perfect, just good enough to use as a searchable index.
What are the suitable scanner choices for Linux? Any recommendations for OCR software that will write in an open format? Has anyone done this before?"
An easier solution. (Score:4, Funny)
monkeys (Score:4, Funny)
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100 pounds? (Score:5, Funny)
If worst comes to worst (Score:2, Funny)
Re:100 pounds? (Score:5, Funny)
Girl? On Slashdot?
Woah!
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Hauling Trees around (Score:2, Funny)
Call Paul Bunyan. Cause he's a lumberjack and he's okay!
Free the monkeys! (Score:4, Funny)
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To the best of my knowledge, Jesus was not a 12 year old girl.