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pasitheaI am officially a total dork. (As though this weren't already old news)
I don't want to carry around a 3 ring binder to shove class notes into but I was getting a big pile of them for this quarter, so I cam up with a better (read, more horrible) solution.
Scan page -> OCR with images -> PDF output.
Took a couple of hours of playing with it to get the text readable after the OCR was done with it. Schools seem to specialize in bad copiers.
5ome ot the text st;ll 1ooks l;ke th;s
but most of it is considerable readable.
One of my instructors was generous enough to print all of his class notes in a nice clean 14pt arial font. Those scan well. Some of the others I had to save just as compressed images, but hey. Now rather than stacks of messy papers, I have tidy multi-page PDFs that fit on my USB thumb drive and I've propagated copies for myself to a couple of places so I'll be able to find the notes much easier than if they were on paper.
I don't want to carry around a 3 ring binder to shove class notes into but I was getting a big pile of them for this quarter, so I cam up with a better (read, more horrible) solution.
Scan page -> OCR with images -> PDF output.
Took a couple of hours of playing with it to get the text readable after the OCR was done with it. Schools seem to specialize in bad copiers.
5ome ot the text st;ll 1ooks l;ke th;s
but most of it is considerable readable.
One of my instructors was generous enough to print all of his class notes in a nice clean 14pt arial font. Those scan well. Some of the others I had to save just as compressed images, but hey. Now rather than stacks of messy papers, I have tidy multi-page PDFs that fit on my USB thumb drive and I've propagated copies for myself to a couple of places so I'll be able to find the notes much easier than if they were on paper.
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Date: 2006-10-14 09:42 am (UTC)...and dealing with irate people who don't understand why their precious papertext got all wonky when it was ocr'd after being scanned. Then get all upset that their huge binders became one 600 meg pdf file. Especially when they didn't actually SAY how they wanted it organized in the first plaaaaccceee! ;.; *curls up in a corner and whimpers*