After the scanning I took about 2 days to OCR everything. That was fairly mindnumbing. Then it was a case of coding up a fairly simple Rails app and parsing t

After the scanning I took about 2 days to OCR everything. That was fairly mindnumbing. Then it was a case of coding up a fairly simple Rails app and parsing that content - another two days. Some thinking time in the middle - I'd say a week. Spread over a year(!)