[FRIAM] scanning an old manuscript

[Barry MacKichan]

Under the assumptions

1. The 400 pages are unbound, or can be freed of a binding, and
2. The type script is pretty clean; i.e., it is not the 8th copy of a 
copy of a xerox or the 4th carbon copy,
I can scan it for you. My scanner scans 25 sheets (50 sides) a minute, 
so it should take less than ten minutes.

The OCR will probably take up to an hour. I can send the result 
electronically, obviously.

The OCR is the ABBYY Fine Reader, which appears to be the embedded OCR 
engine in most products that support OCR, including a number of IOS 
programs. It is quite good if the typescript is clean and sharp.

There are inexpensive iPhone apps that go from the camera to an OCRed 
PDF, but I bet it wouldn’t take too long for you to conclude saving a 
quarter every 20 seconds is not really a good deal, and then you would 
need software to merge 400 independent  PDF files into a single file.

--Barry


On 1 Dec 2017, at 18:21, Nick Thompson wrote:

> Dear Friammers,
>
>
>
> I have a 400 page type script, double sided that I would like to scan, 
> and
> then edit.  Fedex will scan it for a bit over 100 dollars.  They will 
> put it
> into a word file for free, after that.  No guarantees.    Does anybody 
> know
> of a better deal in Santa Fe, or if we mailed the type script off 
> anywhere?
> The quality of the OCR software is my most urgent concern.  Are there 
> some
> REALLY GOOD ONES?  Would it be cheaper for me to buy the software 
> myself?
>
>
>
> Lemme know,
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


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