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Well, I'm posting this as a woodworking tool, cause I'm going to use it to archive a bunch of magazines I can't seem to part with. It should also help to reduce the problems I have with paper around here.
And to top it off, my wife bought it for me for an early birthday present!
Ah, she's a keeper, that's for sure...
So I just had to test it out. Had the November 2008 version of WOOD laying on my desk, so I ripped out the staples and used a little sliding paper cutter to cut it right down the middle. Put it back together and set it up on the scanner. Adjusted the settings to 'Best' (although there is one better, called 'excellent', but I haven't used that yet ).
Pressed the button and let it roll. It scans both sides of the page in one swipe, and a pretty darn fast swipe at that. All 96 (that's 48 doublesided) pages seemed to take only a minute or two to scan.
Once they were loaded into the organizer tool, I told it to do the OCR (optical character recognition) on it and convert it into a searchable PDF. Yup. Searchable text! Amazing... That took a bit longer, somewhere between 5-10 minutes?
And that's it. It really was that simple. I hope I finish my current work project pretty soon and that we get some nice rainy days soon so I can get some mags scanned it.
Heres the pics to prove it!
The Scanner
Demonstrating the Searchability.
A view of all the pages.
And to top it off, my wife bought it for me for an early birthday present!
Ah, she's a keeper, that's for sure...
So I just had to test it out. Had the November 2008 version of WOOD laying on my desk, so I ripped out the staples and used a little sliding paper cutter to cut it right down the middle. Put it back together and set it up on the scanner. Adjusted the settings to 'Best' (although there is one better, called 'excellent', but I haven't used that yet ).
Pressed the button and let it roll. It scans both sides of the page in one swipe, and a pretty darn fast swipe at that. All 96 (that's 48 doublesided) pages seemed to take only a minute or two to scan.
Once they were loaded into the organizer tool, I told it to do the OCR (optical character recognition) on it and convert it into a searchable PDF. Yup. Searchable text! Amazing... That took a bit longer, somewhere between 5-10 minutes?
And that's it. It really was that simple. I hope I finish my current work project pretty soon and that we get some nice rainy days soon so I can get some mags scanned it.
Heres the pics to prove it!
The Scanner
Demonstrating the Searchability.
A view of all the pages.