DIY Book Scanner

Hi guys,
I would like to ask you for your opinion. I was trying to figure out the fastest reliable workflow, as I would like to scan many books. There seems to be a lot of software you are developing both on Windows and Linux, so I´m little overwhelmed . I would like to use Canon A810, as I´ve seen it as reccomended and good priced for scanner kit. I would like to scan it and convert to pdf with OCR. I know that this is probably a question for a long discussion, basically I would like to know if it is worth for Windows user to convert to Linux in order to make process more efficient.

Thanks a lot

I think Linux skills are a good thing to have, but you will probably have more OCR options under Windows. Scan Tailor also runs under Windows. I tend not to do any post-processing these days, so others probably have more informed opinions, but I'd say it should not be necessary to convert to Linux to efficiently process your scans.

to create searchable pdf under Linux from scans putted into a multipage pdf file, I found that the free version of

X-change pdf viewer
- http://www.tracker-software.com/product ... nge-viewer

with its free ocr modules
- http://www.tracker-software.com/pdf-xchange-viewer-ocr

works very well with wine in Linux! I scanned A book at 600 dpi and ocr returned to me a text file perfect at 99% that I used to make an audio book by reading this text with a text to speech app

And what about remote software triggering and direct picture transfering, is it available also for Windows, please? I couldn´t find it on the forum. Thanks

dingodog wrote:to create searchable pdf under Linux from scans putted into a multipage pdf file, I found that the free version of

X-change pdf viewer
- http://www.tracker-software.com/product ... nge-viewer

with its free ocr modules
- http://www.tracker-software.com/pdf-xchange-viewer-ocr

works very well with wine in Linux! I scanned A book at 600 dpi and ocr returned to me a text file perfect at 99% that I used to make an audio book by reading this text with a text to speech app

Dingodog, I just love your posts and your constant pointers to good, Free software. Thank you for always giving a good alternative! You are a great resource.

My windows based work-flow is linked below, works very well for myself using two canon cameras.