nomos
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Has anyone worked much with optical character recognition (OCR) software? I'm tempted to scan some of the books that I go to most often, especially the ones without indexes, with the idea of converting the images to text using OCR so that they can be turned into searchable PDF files.
But how good is the technology at this point? My understanding is that it can still be a bit shaky.
I noticed that there's at least one line of scanners on the market right now that's made for scanning books perfectly flat and without shadows. Would be good but not worthwhile if the text conversion i$ all g4rbl3d.
But how good is the technology at this point? My understanding is that it can still be a bit shaky.
I noticed that there's at least one line of scanners on the market right now that's made for scanning books perfectly flat and without shadows. Would be good but not worthwhile if the text conversion i$ all g4rbl3d.