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Suggestions for digitizing documents? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Jeffrey@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What hardware and software do you use for digitizing your documents?

I'm looking for solutions to digitize hundreds of paper documents, ideally the end result will be searchable with OCR and I won't be locked into any proprietary software / services. Any workflow tips?

I'm not opposed to using a scanning app on my phone, but so far the ones I have tried are fairly slow, and require manually identifying the corners on nearly every page.

EDIT: I ultimately chose Nextcloud and my phone to scan documents. Nextcloud includes an excellent document-scanning feature in the app.

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[–] mekhos@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

PaperlessNG or a fork thereof

[–] sproid@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

You mean cheap right? Because otherwise you can send them including books to a service that scans them pretty for you.

Doing it yourself is either a printer/scanner for loose sheets or a Scanner app for books or everything really. I use TinyScanner app to avoid uploading the files to the cloud. But if that's not an issue then any will do. Camscanner is really good. On the internet there's a website that teaches you how to build a book stand specifically for scanning with cameras. But it's expensive and do it yourself. Lastly I find orcmypdf the very best for ocr documents.