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A comment on Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?.

Re:Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mounta... by viraptor on Sunday May 05, 2019 @04:20AM (#19831773)
Ask a professional. And by that I mean - get in touch with Jason Scott: https://twitter.com/textfiles
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Re:Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mounta... by jocmeh on Sunday May 05, 2019 @04:58AM (#19831850)
If we say books and professional, I think of the Internet Archive. They developed their own software which is used on the TT Scribe system, see https://archive.org/details/tabletopscribesystem. These people run an amazing operation, but even for them this still involves a lot of manual labor. In the end, what it takes is a person to grab a book and type in the title.
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Re:Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mounta... by dredmorbius on Sunday May 05, 2019 @09:09AM (#19832612)
Jason Scott is the Internet Archive's Free Range Archivist.
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Re:Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mounta... by textfiles on Sunday May 05, 2019 @02:01PM (#19834038)
HI
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Re:Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mounta... by ebcode on Sunday May 05, 2019 @08:47PM (#19836056)
Is it true what vessenes said above about the Internet Archive receiving a dataset of book spines? And would it be possible for the IA to release that dataset publicly?
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