From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 2 17:08:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4223516A41F for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:08:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89BEC43D45 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:08:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j82H8BDY076773; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:08:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j82H8AJN076772; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:08:10 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Nikolas Britton Message-ID: <20050902170810.GC76575@thought.org> References: <20050902030726.GA71012@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: best OCR scanner?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:08:13 -0000 On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 03:01:12AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 9/1/05, Gary Kline wrote: > > People, > > > > I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright > > book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is > > and if there has been substantial improvement in OCR > > software in recent years. This book has few footnotes > > or different typefaces, so it should make things easier. > > > > Oh, an if there is something that plugs into DOS/DOZE > > and just works, super. I'lll use my W2K box. (Hopefully, > > something that plugs into COM0 or COM1. USB okay too.) > > > > Any scanner will work when your scanning a 2 tone document! The only > thing that matters is the OCR software and their is only one game in > town, OmniPage Pro by scansoft. Well, the book I want to scan is from 1913:: just text. Does this scanner work with FreeBSD? or only Windows? > > BTW it's faster (and won't damage the book) to photograph the book and > then crop and covert to B&W, white balance, contrast, etc in photoshop > or gimp etc., and then import the photos into the OCR software. The > OCR software should produce less errors too. Okay, can do; thanks. > > After all is done post the book on gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/ > > oh, you should be able to fine some tips about scanning books at the > gutenberg site too. Yep; that's my idea. I've volunteered for PG, just never at the scanning level. gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix