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Subject: company that digitizes textbooks
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: modular-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 29 Jun 2002 10:27 PDT
Expires: 29 Jul 2002 10:27 PDT
Question ID: 34902
I have some textbooks that I want to digitize to computer files. They are
mostly reference books for graduate studies in computer science. I own hard
copies of those books but I want a digital archive of them so that I can
index and search.

I know what I have to do: 

1) scan each book page by page,
2) run ocr (optical character recognition),
3) save them as ascii files.

But I don't want to do it myself (time-consuming!). I want to ask: is there
any company that provides this kind service at a reasonably cost? 

Thanks,
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Subject: Re: company that digitizes textbooks
Answered By: lot-ga on 29 Jun 2002 11:23 PDT
Rated:4 out of 5 stars
 
Hello,

The following links maybe of help, but bear in mind they tend to be
targeted towards corporate and office enviroments, though they don't
necessarily discriminate against consumers.
.
CompuPacific
http://www.compupacific.com/document_management.htm
.
United Management Consultancy
http://www.umcpl.com/ocr.htm
.
OffShore Data Entry
http://www.offshoredataentry.com/
.
IT Outsourcing Inc
http://www.itoutsourcingservices.com/
.
Prime Recognition
http://www.primerecognition.com/augprime/prime_services.htm
.

Search strategy:
.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Business/Business_Services/Outsourcing/Data_Entry/
.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Shopping/Photography/Services/Digital/Photo_Scanning/
.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Document_Imaging/Automated_Forms_Processing/
.

I hope that helps you out.
.

Kind regards
.
modular-ga rated this answer:4 out of 5 stars
thanks for your detailed answer! 

though i found out this solution to be too expensive... i need to do
it by myself (page by page) after all :(

Comments  
Subject: Re: company that digitizes textbooks
From: carmencortez-ga on 29 Jun 2002 11:50 PDT
 
you could also try
educomp datamatics limited
learningmate division
www.learningmate.com
email: shantanu@learningmate.com
Subject: Re: company that digitizes textbooks
From: jeremymiles-ga on 29 Jun 2002 12:47 PDT
 
I have seen this done in order to convert books to Braille for people
who have difficulties with vision.   You could have a look at the
website:

http://www.teleread.org/index.html

I have seen a semi-automated system for digitising books, in a college
for the blind, but you should perhaps note that to speed up the
process, the book was destroyed.

Search strategy: blind books digitizing 

://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=blind+books+digitizing

jeremymiles-ga
Subject: Re: company that digitizes textbooks
From: milesw-ga on 29 Jun 2002 14:14 PDT
 
A similar question has been asked and answered on Google Answers:

Best book scanning methodology
https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=19115

You might find some of the suggestions there helpful as well.

Sincerely,

milesw-ga

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