I've got an Epson Perfection 1640 Office scanner, which includes a sheet feeder. I bought a cheap SCSI card for it (it will use SCSI or USB) because when I bought it I was still running a 2.2.x kernel which had mediocre USB support. It's pretty fast for scanning - I'd guess less than a minute per page. I've got a research project that involves scanning lots of text; my routine is:
- Scan the document - Save the image and also run it through gocr - Save the output of gocr - Pay an undergraduate to view (via a web interface) the graphic and the text and edit the text accordingly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Alex Polite wrote: > Sorry for this grossly OT post. I'd like to scan a whole lot of > documents and run them through OCR. Last time I checked scanning a > page of text took something like two minutes. This is way to slow for > my purposes. I'd need something that works with the speed of a > photocopier. An alternative would be to have something that can > process a whole stack of papers automatically. > > Anyone that has had any experiences with this? > > > -- > > Alex Polite > http://plusseven.com/gpg > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
