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George Ledo Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 3042 Posts |
Donna has been talking about scanning a bunch (and I do mean a BUNCH) of papers as well as recipes from cooking magazines so she can get rid of the paper copies. She doesn't need to OCR them, just to have them in some kind of a database so she can look thru them or call one up if she wants. So I've been looking for pass-thru document scanners in the range of around $200 to $300, and found a few that look okay.
The question, however, is about the software. Ideally (ideally), the scanner would photo the page, ask you what you want to name it, and store it away as an image with that name in some kind of a searchable database. IOW, it'd be a sort-of "intelligent" software that's already designed to scan, name, and store away without a lot of effort on the part of the user. Is such a thing available to us mere mortals? Can anyone give me a good lead? Thanks much.
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Salguod Nairb Room 101 0 Posts |
It would be better to save them as PDF's and add tag words. Image files can get rather large. I don't know of a way to do it quickly so I would expect it to be a tedious task.
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5925 Posts |
There are scanners out there which convert to searchable data. This could be very handy with recipes.
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Tom Jorgenson Inner circle LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA 4451 Posts |
Do you have a Mac or PC?
I have an Epson scanner/printer all-in-one (3540) that does similar to what you need. I scan on it to my computer, name the file whatever I want, and put those in folders, named appropriately. I can search the recipes and subject via the computer. I can't do much beyond that, but it's all I need to do to keep track of things. That's pretty basic, I think...but seems to be what you want to do. Beyond that, I'd start searching for AppS. I use Epson, because I can get 12 cartridges on Ebay, shipped, for $17.00 instead of $150.00..and Epson takes them just fine. Epson's are tough, can take some abuse and keep cranking.
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
Neat Desk works.
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MaxfieldsMagic Inner circle Instead of practicing, I made 3009 Posts |
We use ScanSnaps at work, scan the documents directly to pdf, then OCR them in Adobe Acrobat. It's actually a pretty quick process. The ScanSnaps scan both sides of a page, feed quickly, and have great resolution. No experience scanning directly to a database, but you can scan directly to any file you choose.
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Bill Veteran user and Pretty Nice Guy 373 Posts |
I'll second Neat Desk. It's available for MAC & PC. AMAZON has them for about $300.
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