What document imaging company do you recommend that is user-friendly, cheap, and secure? [more inside]
posted by Merlin144 on Dec 25, 2009 - 3 answers

Options besides PDF for digitizing dual-language books? [more inside]
posted by JoannaC on Dec 20, 2009 - 8 answers

At some point in the future, I'd like to follow the recommendations of some various sites I've seen online and scan most of my paper archives to PDF. It looks like this would be the best solution (I'm a Mac user) – or, at least, that's the device I've seen recommended a few million times. However, I really can't see having the discretionary $417+ to purchase this device, not for a very, very long time. Does anyone offer this device for rental? (I live in Chicago.) Is there a RipDigital equivalent for this kind of thing (a very long time ago, they did the initial move of my music from CDs to MP3s)? Are there cheaper alternatives that are just as good?
posted by WCityMike on Nov 21, 2009 - 9 answers

Any good free (or really inexpensive) OCR software out there? I looked through the archives here but couldn't find any info that was quite right for my needs. [more inside]
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit on Aug 22, 2008 - 20 answers

What do I do with my voluminous diaries (mostly in spiral notebook form) that span 20 years of my life? [more inside]
posted by desjardins on Dec 3, 2007 - 23 answers

I need OCR software which will scan a page of a book and then produce an output which has the image of the scanned page on one side and the scanned text on the other. So: side A = perfect copy of the original page; side B = the text as processed by the OCR software. Does such a thing exist?
posted by humuhumu on Jul 4, 2007 - 2 answers

I care enough about getting all my physical media into digital form that I'm ready to hand-scan my remaining books where necessary. Before I do this, what are all the ways I should search to be sure a given book doesn't exist as an ebook I could buy (or in any other digital form)? Also: any hints for efficiently doing the scanning & OCR?
posted by allterrainbrain on Sep 17, 2006 - 10 answers

Document scanning and archiving? (MI) [more inside]
posted by mireille on Feb 16, 2005 - 7 answers