It is wonderful what a difference it makes to have the right tools.<\/p>\n
Years ago I obtained a thesis from the US, for which I was charged like a wounded bull.\u00a0 It was printed double-sided, and I had no sheet-feeder able to handle that.\u00a0 Today I found two very old Finereader projects on disk, neither comprising more than 70 pages, and both clearly scanned by doing a bunch, first one side, then the other.\u00a0 It must have been very labour-intensive, for I never proceeded further.<\/p>\n
Anyway a correspondent caused me to look for it again.\u00a0 Thankfully I was able to find the paper copy.\u00a0 But these days I have a Futijsu Scansnap which is designed to turn bunches of papers into PDFs.\u00a0 It made short work of the whole document.\u00a0 Then I numbered the pages in Adobe Acrobat, which revealed one case where two pages had gone through.\u00a0 I also found that a few pages had acquired a vertical line; these I rescanned.<\/p>\n
At the moment Adobe is OCRing the PDF for me.\u00a0 When it is done, I shall have a nice, compact, 400 dpi copy of the whole thing.<\/p>\n
I hardly ever consult the thing; but at least, if I so wish, I can do so easily.<\/p>\n
That little document reader was a splendid investment.\u00a0 When I think of the pain I endure with things which won’t go into it, I am deeply impressed.<\/p>\n
There are other advances also.\u00a0 At my current workplace they have one of these combined scanner-printer-photocopier.\u00a0 It has a sheet-feeder for copies, and outputs scans to PDF.\u00a0 I have used it to scan a load of paper articles early one morning into PDF.\u00a0 But … if you look closely … it will scan A3 as well, through the same A4-looking sheetfeeder.\u00a0 Which means that even bulky old A3 copies – and who hasn’t got at least some of these? – can be turned into PDFs and the paper discarded!<\/p>\n
Worth looking out for at your work.\u00a0 After all, it doesn’t use consumables, and is way faster than any home device.\u00a0 Just make sure nobody is likely to object.<\/p>\n
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