On: Show HN: Adventures in OCR

[2Gkashmiri]

A few years ago I got so good at the whole scan>scantailor>PDF that I could scan a 100-150 page book, send that to scantailor, edit it and improve it to TIFF. Convert to PDF and OCR it in half hour.

I got very good at this but page turning way a bore.

The PDF turned out in a mechanical fashion without much effort.

I made a few scripts to do TIFF to PDF and then stictching them and doing OCR.

[pronoiac → 2Gkashmiri]

Page turning? So, non-destructive, with cameras? How's the quality?

[2Gkashmiri → pronoiac]

I did two things. 1. Destructive removing page staples and then just page turn manually.

Or 2. Book holder for non destructive page turning. More delicate. Slow turning.

CAmara I use a cheap

https://www.amazon.in/ClickScan-Foldable-Metallic-Design-2-P...