Recaptcha site for some examples - http://recaptcha.net/digitizing.html
You can spend a lot of money on scanners and character recognition
software - just try to scale it to the number of documents you're trying
to scan in - otherwise you can just use an All-in-one printer / scanner
and use an open source OCR.
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 15:28 -0500, Terry Dash wrote:
> Hi -
>
> We would like to scan old paper records related to student information
> (applications, reports, transcripts, alumni/ae activities...) and business
> services (invoices, payments,...) to create a well-organized,
> easily-searchable system of electronic information. We are hoping the
> system will work equally well on Macintosh OS and Windows, and that it
> will be hosted outside our school.
>
> Does any of you have first-hand knowledge of a commercial system that
> automates scanning and also provides a relatively simple interface for
> searching and retrieving documents after they've been scanned?
>
> (Just FYI, we do not wish to develop a custom database.)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Terry
> . . .
>
> Terry Dash
> Director of Technology
> The Pike School
> 34 Sunset Rock Road
> Andover, Massachusetts 01810
> ph: 978-475-1197 x6623
> fx: 978-475-3014
>
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