Re: [OT] How fast are scanners nowadays?
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.
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * 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?
>
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