The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 double sided sheet feed scanner at Amazon for $400 will scan 60 pages a minute and make word searchable pdf's but it only does sheets. I used a ban saw to cut off the spines of all my 600 books to scan them, now I can carry them all on a flash drive. Scansnap comes with over $400 of software including "Fine Reader" that makes the pdf's. I imagine the program would work for this unit since it is an OCR, Optical character recognition program.
@ssssaaafff Sure,the cut and scan method is one way to go, but this is a non-destructive approach so you can keep the physical copy, too.
There are tons of scanning programs out there if you want to OCR the book. However, the OCR is not perfect (unless you go through and check it), so I prefer to stick to book images (even if they aren't searchable). With good and optimization, I can get the image-based PDFs down to around 100kb/page.
The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 double sided sheet feed scanner at Amazon for $400 will scan 60 pages a minute and make word searchable pdf's but it only does sheets. I used a ban saw to cut off the spines of all my 600 books to scan them, now I can carry them all on a flash drive. Scansnap comes with over $400 of software including "Fine Reader" that makes the pdf's. I imagine the program would work for this unit since it is an OCR, Optical character recognition program.
ssssaaafff 7 months ago
@ssssaaafff Sure,the cut and scan method is one way to go, but this is a non-destructive approach so you can keep the physical copy, too.
There are tons of scanning programs out there if you want to OCR the book. However, the OCR is not perfect (unless you go through and check it), so I prefer to stick to book images (even if they aren't searchable). With good and optimization, I can get the image-based PDFs down to around 100kb/page.
314piesJR 7 months ago
Good choice of book, bro!
sonicmonkey123 7 months ago