My Great-Grandfather and Great-Grandmother wrote autobiographies, mostly as a family heirloom type of thing. My mother has just sent them to me. I'm enjoying reading them, but am concerned about the fact that there seem to be only two copies (my brother having the other), and the paper has noticeable signs of wear (yellowish tint, etc.) If I ever have kids, I would like them to have the books. But I'm 29 and just now reading them, I don't know whether they will be in decent shape by the time my theoretical kids read them.
I would like to scan them in and possibly even reprint them in a full hard-bound fashion and also have a PDF of the digital version. Obviously some error checking should be involved so that OCR errors aren't overlooked. This is something that seems too time-consuming for my laziness to permit me to do it.
Is there any place that does such things? Anyone have any suggestions if I do decide to do it myself as far as high quality scanners that you can run over pages (not flatbeds) and OCR software? I am too selfish to spend more than say $500 on this, and would prefer under $200.
I would like to scan them in and possibly even reprint them in a full hard-bound fashion and also have a PDF of the digital version. Obviously some error checking should be involved so that OCR errors aren't overlooked. This is something that seems too time-consuming for my laziness to permit me to do it.
Is there any place that does such things? Anyone have any suggestions if I do decide to do it myself as far as high quality scanners that you can run over pages (not flatbeds) and OCR software? I am too selfish to spend more than say $500 on this, and would prefer under $200.
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