Is it still crazy to scan 1000 magazines?

[shortylickens]

You are crazy.
Do it.

On a related topic, I find many of the books in my favorite RPG are disorganized and repeat a lot of info.
I would love to do an OCR scan of all the books and rearrange the text in a conscise, useful manner with MS Word.

Am I crazy?
Should I do it?
If so, what program should I use to do the OCR? Is the document scanner that comes with Office 2003 good enough? Or should I use one from a quality image suite?

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
You are crazy.
Do it.

On a related topic, I find many of the books in my favorite RPG are disorganized and repeat a lot of info.
I would love to do an OCR scan of all the books and rearrange the text in a conscise, useful manner with MS Word.

Am I crazy?
Should I do it?
If so, what program should I use to do the OCR? Is the document scanner that comes with Office 2003 good enough? Or should I use one from a quality image suite?

I am making Jpegs and putting them into PDF's. Much easier then OCR......... you will be editing forever if you use OCR.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Aquaman]

450/612 (73.53%) Done

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[everman]

That's crazy. What's the combined file size for all of it?
I wonder if you can run all of the images through an ocr program, then load that text into a database for easy searching through it all...

 

[suse920]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
450/612 (73.53%) Done

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Aquaman

I am making Jpegs and putting them into PDF's. Much easier then OCR......... you will be editing forever if you use OCR.

Cheers,
Aquaman

can't acrobat scan directly?

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Aquaman

I am making Jpegs and putting them into PDF's. Much easier then OCR......... you will be editing forever if you use OCR.

Cheers,
Aquaman

can't acrobat scan directly?

Probably but I don't have Adobe Acrobat and I am using a third party PDF creator.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: everman
That's crazy. What's the combined file size for all of it?
I wonder if you can run all of the images through an ocr program, then load that text into a database for easy searching through it all...

Around 15 GB

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

update?

 

[Deadtrees]

he still scanning?

 

[Kev]

oh my god. i would be on the virge of suicide after finishing the first 30 scans.

 

[sonambulo]

how many now?

 

[arcenite]

I am surprised your scanner still works

 

[Aquaman]

453/612 (74.02%) Done

I got bogged down with work.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Aquaman]

459/613 (74.88%) done

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[edjam]

That'sa helluva mission

 

[Aquaman]

After I scan them all I have to resize some of the Jpegs, make them into PDF's and then I want to make a db index of all of the articles.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
After I scan them all I have to resize some of the Jpegs, make them into PDF's and then I want to make a db index of all of the articles.

Cheers,
Aquaman

You're not going to resize manually right? You know about Image Resizer?

 

[Aquaman]

maybe resize was a bad description........... some of the magazines had glued bindings. I had to cut the bindings off in order to scan the magazines. It left a white margine (3/4 of an inch) that I would like to cut off.

So I guess I will have to do that manually.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
maybe resize was a bad description........... some of the magazines had glued bindings. I had to cut the bindings off in order to scan the magazines. It left a white margine (3/4 of an inch) that I would like to cut off.

So I guess I will have to do that manually.

Cheers,
Aquaman

Oh ouch . Because I was gonna say, Image Resizer could resize that in a minute

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: Aquaman
maybe resize was a bad description........... some of the magazines had glued bindings. I had to cut the bindings off in order to scan the magazines. It left a white margine (3/4 of an inch) that I would like to cut off.

So I guess I will have to do that manually.

Cheers,
Aquaman

Oh ouch . Because I was gonna say, Image Resizer could resize that in a minute

eh......... can't be worse then scanning the mags. I think the most difficult part will be the DB index.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[BillyBatson]

that is silly, i would rather burn the pile than scan it

 

[Czar]

Aquaman,
since this has been going on forever, did you post a picture of the magazine pile?

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: BillyBatson
that is silly, i would rather burn the pile than scan it

That's not very enviromentlly friendly

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: Czar
Aquaman,
since this has been going on forever, did you post a picture of the magazine pile?

Not yet Czar........ maybe when I finish the whole thing.

Cheers,
Aquaman