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Hardware and software for scanning and OCR old magazines

6 points by scrpn 1y ago

I have a collection of old history magazines, starting from 1969, that I would like to scan and convert to text. What tools can be used?

mauisaints1 1y ago
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LarryMade2 1y ago
One that I see that looks promising is CZUR scanners, they are relatively low-cost and have a lot of ease-of-use features like OCR, page separation (scanning an open book and creating two pages), auto rotation, curl flattening (corrects warped scans due to book spines), foot control, etc. I haven't used it but maybe someone will pipe-in with a reply.
jimkri 1y ago
A process I’ve been following for a genealogy project is to scan with iPhone, or use a webcam on your computer, organize photos into pdf, upload pdf to ai studio to ocr and transcribe, and then I will convert that to a Latex document for a cleanly formatted text based version.
westurner 1y ago
Book scanning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning awesome-scanning lists Devices, Software: https://github.com/ad-si/awesome-scanning https://github.com/ad-si/awesome-scanning book scanner: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=book+scanner https://hn.algolia.com/?q=book+scanner : - Foot pedal book scanner
- scrpn 1y ago
  Thank you!
  - westurner 1y ago
    NP! /?awesome-selfhosted "scan" : https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#document-management https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#doc... : - DMS: Document Management System - paperless-ngx - papermerge But then to do search snippets and/or genai with citations of scanned PDFs, images, and hopefully .txt and .md too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321180 : > paperai/paperetl, paperqa2, paperqa-zotero,