Under the assumptions
1. The 400 pages are unbound, or can be freed of a binding, and
2. The type script is pretty clean; i.e., it is not the 8th copy of a
copy of a xerox or the 4th carbon copy,
I can scan it for you. My scanner scans 25 sheets (50 sides) a minute,
so it should take less than ten minutes.
The OCR will probably take up to an hour. I can send the result
electronically, obviously.
The OCR is the ABBYY Fine Reader, which appears to be the embedded OCR
engine in most products that support OCR, including a number of IOS
programs. It is quite good if the typescript is clean and sharp.
There are inexpensive iPhone apps that go from the camera to an OCRed
PDF, but I bet it wouldn’t take too long for you to conclude saving a
quarter every 20 seconds is not really a good deal, and then you would
need software to merge 400 independent PDF files into a single file.
--Barry
On 1 Dec 2017, at 18:21, Nick Thompson wrote:
Dear Friammers,
I have a 400 page type script, double sided that I would like to scan,
and
then edit. Fedex will scan it for a bit over 100 dollars. They will
put it
into a word file for free, after that. No guarantees. Does anybody
know
of a better deal in Santa Fe, or if we mailed the type script off
anywhere?
The quality of the OCR software is my most urgent concern. Are there
some
REALLY GOOD ONES? Would it be cheaper for me to buy the software
myself?
Lemme know,
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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