From: Karsten Bänder (kbaender@bigfoot.com)
Date: Tue Nov 24 1998 - 11:58:34 MST
The problem of digitizing private media is primarily one of efficiency. One could, in a first step, use a scanner to make high-quality images of all book pages. Then, eventually, OCR programs might be able to translate these bitmaps into html, so that you are able to link all these pieces of information together. Or you make up a database which contains all these documents with appropriate keywords to allow a quick search. The problem is, you'll need a format able of storing and indexing not only text, but also grafics and sound.
MP3-Encoding works quite well, anyway, CD sound is far from being perfect. I did that myself, because I did not want to carry several hundred CDs around. Still, my paper archive awaits the next stage of the electronic evolution. Anyway, putting over one hundred books on a scaner, page by page, does not seem interesting to me. And OCR does not work, I tried this already.
The biggest problem, however, is not storing, but retrieving information, and, for that to work, archieving it properly. I do not know any program which can do that properly without a huge amount of work on my side.
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