2009/8/19 Carcharoth <[email protected]>: > Sure. It will take time. :-) > But once done, you will have space for more! > 200,000 pages at 10 pages a day is 20,000 days, which is 54.79 years. > You might need to crowdsource the scanning.
There's cutting the binding off and auto-feeding the stack of pages into a scanner-photocopier. This destroys the books, but is very efficient. > How do Google Books and libraries and Project Gutenberg and others do > mass scanning and OCR of books? Do they use lots of money and funding > to pay lots of people to do lots of scanning on lots of machines, or > do they automate it in some way? I believe they have machines to turn pages, and something to figure out the distorted photo of the book and render it how it would look as a flat page. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
