Hardware and software for scanning and OCR old magazines

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 :

paperai/paperetl, paperqa2, paperqa-zotero,

LarryMade2• 11 months 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• 11 months 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.

Hardware and software for scanning and OCR old magazines

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