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Practical OCR solution for converting a large book to a digital format?

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Mar 15, 202616391 views
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I was over by my grandparent's place this past weekend. My grandmother pulled out this giant (~1400 page) book of her family history going back to 1630 or so. Giant nerd that I am, I thought it would be slick to have all the information stored in a database and available from the web. I can handle …

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I came across this on Lifehacker quite some time back, and it has been one of my top DIY projects ever since. Replace the iPhone with any camera or imaging, and you get a stack of nice high-res jpegs ready for you to OCR with any software, even (urk…

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