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Re:Hardware and software for scanning and OCR old magazines by westurner on Saturday August 16, 2025 @02:10PM (#44925680)
Book scanning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning

awesome-scanning lists Devices, Software: https://github.com/ad-si/awesome-scanning

book scanner: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=book+scanner :

- Foot pedal book scanner

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Re:Hardware and software for scanning and OCR old magazines by scrpn on Saturday August 16, 2025 @04:09PM (#44926527)
Thank you!
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Re:Hardware and software for scanning and OCR old magazines by westurner on Sunday August 17, 2025 @11:58AM (#44932527)
NP!

/?awesome-selfhosted "scan" : https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#doc... :

- DMS: Document Management System

- paperless-ngx

- papermerge

But then to do search snippets and/or genai with citations of scanned PDFs, images, and hopefully .txt and .md too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321180 :

> paperai/paperetl, paperqa2, paperqa-zotero,

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