Hello James, If you can take the books apart, you'd be fastest with the kind of scanner that will scan both sides of a sheet and also has an automatic feed. The application VueScan can probably handle one of these and it produces very good images.
However, VueScan is not good for OCR. It will do it, but not very well. You can, however, feed the file of images to ABBYY FineReader Express for Mac which does an excellent job on OCR. Here is a link to the page showing which scanners are supported by VueScan: <http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#supported> Cheers, Anne On 24 Sep 2013, at 15:41, James Lee <jameslee...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm wondering what would be the fastest way for a college student to scan > books with accurate OCR? > I know there are cameras out there for scanning documents like hover cam and > pearl, but I haven't actually used them. > I could be wrong, but pearl is only works with Open Book, right? > Can someone share their experience, and recommend what to buy? > Especially comparison would be very helpful. > Thanks so much, > > JL > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
