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If Kalmback won't do it, I will probably end up doing it for my own personal use. Sheet feed scanners are much more reasonably priced, so I would just *gasp* slice the mag right down the spine, feed it through, turn it around, and feed the backs. Rearranging the pages and doing OCR automatically are easier with new software, and stick it on Word format pages. (Why word? see below) Once that's done, i would index the magazines with Google Desktop (it supports MS Word files). What about OCR errors? The simple fact is, that it's not perfect, but in casual reading, corrections could be made, especially if the documents are stored on a DVD-RW or large hard disk. What about the throne room? I would certainly keep a year or more of the most recent magazines, for such purposes. Really, though, I don't have room for 30 years of back issues, and the older ones are deteriorating, and some have begun collecting mildew and need diposed.
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