hello my name is james a.k.a. "Doc" and i want to get into archiving some of my books that you cannot get anymore just for safe keeping and online reference for myself. i am handy with building things and have bashed together a small setup shown below. a few more things to be done but i need a few more things listed below to get er' done.
thanks in advance
doc
currently my equipment stats are:
canon sd400 elph
sd450 elph
canon a610 powershot 5.0 mp
2 - sandisk 2 gb sd card
computer system is as follows
amd 2 gz 4 gb nvidia 1 gb video dvd etc.
also have a hp 5610 officejet printer attached. would also want to know if this can be used and with what software.
the attached files are my rig very basic.
i am trying to use the same setup as far as electronics as the DIY book scanner on instructables.
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Hig ... d-Cheap-C/
any updates i need to be made aware of to this and i would need to know what the most current software to use with this setup.
best software to use for my setup
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Re: best software to use for my setup
I'm pretty sure people who know more about the software options than I do want to know what operating system you're running before saying anything about software: Windows XP/Vista/7, Linux or something else?
A very common way of going around would seem to be to batch process the images (IfranView and Jpegtran seem to be used a lot) so they are turned and renamed, process the images in ScanTailor, do OCR (ABBYY seems popular) and then create an e-book. Since you haven't specified a format you want to end up with it's a little hard to give advise on the last step.
A very common way of going around would seem to be to batch process the images (IfranView and Jpegtran seem to be used a lot) so they are turned and renamed, process the images in ScanTailor, do OCR (ABBYY seems popular) and then create an e-book. Since you haven't specified a format you want to end up with it's a little hard to give advise on the last step.
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Randers, Denmark
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there
L. P. Hartley
Jakob Øhlenschlæger
Randers, Denmark
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there
L. P. Hartley
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Re: best software to use for my setup
sorry windows 7 ultimate and pdf would be good
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Re: best software to use for my setup
I also use Windows and output in pdf. I don't do any coding or know about command lines or python environments, something the much smarter people on this forum get very good results with using things like Bindery and BookFu etc.
However you can get good results. My workflow currently:
Photograph, save photographs into a local computer folder. one left folder, one right folder.
Using Ant Renamer, rename the files 0001, 0003, 0005 in the right folder and 0002, 0004 etc in the left folder. Now is the time to get you have all the pages.
Combine both left and right folders into one main folder, hopefully now with all pages in sequence.
Run through Scan Tailor.
Then run through Homer to get small, well compressed pdf's.
done.
(homer can OCR however I can't get this portion to work. The pdf compression still works great and I can use pdfViewer to OCR if needed).
However you can get good results. My workflow currently:
Photograph, save photographs into a local computer folder. one left folder, one right folder.
Using Ant Renamer, rename the files 0001, 0003, 0005 in the right folder and 0002, 0004 etc in the left folder. Now is the time to get you have all the pages.
Combine both left and right folders into one main folder, hopefully now with all pages in sequence.
Run through Scan Tailor.
Then run through Homer to get small, well compressed pdf's.
done.
(homer can OCR however I can't get this portion to work. The pdf compression still works great and I can use pdfViewer to OCR if needed).
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Re: best software to use for my setup
I just backed up my computer, erased the HD and re-installed Windows Vista and then Homer, the OCR component now works! There must have been some bug on my prior install that allowed all the other components of Homer to work but not Tesseract. I just compressed 613 tiffs at 1GB, the output of scantailor to a 30MB OCR'd PDF. Thanks Heelspringer!
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