On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:35:04 -0500, John Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I have converted a number of manuals into pdf documents and can say that >>it's quite a bit of work to get a really useful result. > >Oh don't I know it, particularly with fold-outs, I have done far too >many of those. That is why I am hoping to find a service to do this job. Look in the yellow pages and see if you have a Xerox DocuTech service center in your area. A DocuTech can digitize pages per second full duplex. A major user of DocuTech services are lawyers who need to scan thousands of evidentiary documents to put them into a litigation database. A DocuTech center is about the only thing I know of set up to do high volume scanning at reasonable prices. The other suggestion is one of the higher end PC scanners with a document feeder. Canon makes a nice one, as does Epson. HP makes one but I'd never again touch anything optical that HP makes. The freebie do-all program Irfanview can drive multi-page capable scanners to produce a single PDF per magazine, for instance. I'm not sure how useful scanned magazines are going to be to you. The scanning produces graphical images of the pages and not OCR'd text and graphics (The DocuTech excepted). You can't search for keywords and such unless you build a separate database. A friend of mine has been on an almost fanatical quest to digitize every car magazine published during the muscle car era. He's mostly succeeded. Many, many gigabytes. He gave me a copy. It's mostly worthless since it can't be searched. It is fun to sit down and page through old issues of Hot Rod and the like but as a useful tool for finding specifics, it's no good. John --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.johngsbbq.com Cleveland, Occupied TN A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.-Ralph Waldo Emerson _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
