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.
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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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