I have some information since i started my "reduce the shelf space project"
the previous summer.
I have a lot of ring binders covering the wall's of my apartment collected
for 40+ years.
I bought an Epson GT-S85 that is capable of scanning both sides in one go.
As software i bought VueScan (www.hamrick.com) since i had used it a
couple of years before. It is capable of supporting a large amount of
different scanners. After some tweaking back and forth with all the
parameters i got descent and repetetive results scanning and outputting
to pdf's.
I don't remember now what resolution i used but it results in a scanning
time of around 6 seconds for one page (2sided) if i remember right. If=20
running at
the lowest resolution it would take a second only (useless).
What takes the most time is converting to pdf, that would take probably=20
around
2 minutes for 10 pages.
It converts one page at a time, and the other 7 cpu's idling, maybe that
is fixed now. I don't OCR my pages since i don't need it, and i think=20
that it would
be too much work to get a descent result correcting the mistakes in the=20
process.
VueScan has a built in OCR function (google "vuescan ocr") never tried=20
by me
though. A good thing with vuescan is that you can try it for free. It is=20
also updated
very frequently (weekly). There is a book on vuescan titled "The VueScan=20
Bible" that
i now have in my possession but hasn't read it yet.

Some hint's:

Don't underestimate the time needed in doing this. If you have the space=20
available
do move your mags. It's much nicer to flip pages than clicking on a screen.

Do proof read all pages scanned since background color in a figure/program
listing can result in unreadable blur (scanned B/W). This is why i have=20
a pile of
50 binders that needs proof reading, and that i lost steam continueing=20
my project :-(

Do you really really really need OCR ?

regards
/Sten
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