--- Jon Noring <jon@noring.name> wrote:
Regarding 1), a person can buy the PlusTek OpticBook 3600 for about $250 or so.
As long as one is counting all the costs, throw in the price of a Windows license too. Geoff's point is that, for what we do at PG, you can get pretty good results with a little fussing if you already own a camera or are interested in buying one anyhow. That provides more options for very fragile books. Your desire for archival-quality scans doesn't affect the usability of the rig for good-enough-to-OCR images. (Incidentally, I might as well mention here since it's tangentially related: I haven't forgotten about those Kama Sutra scans :) . Preparing them for dp took me a couple of hours; cleaning them up for direct online viewing is what's taking the time right now.) ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/