Ask HN: Scanning a Closed Notebook/Book?

by desertravenon 2/6/2024, 5:38 AMwith 3 comments

Hi. I was just looking at the post regarding the Vesuvius Challenge - scanning old scrolls for readable text.

I'm wondering if this is possible for notebooks. I often use pen and paper and fill small notebooks up quite quickly. I'd prefer not to scan/OCR every page individually.

Are there any methods that could potentially scan the notebook as a whole and parse the text inside? Maybe if using a special pen?

Any thoughts?

by stop50on 2/6/2024, 6:56 AM

why not something like the remarkable(the hardware, the stock os is not so mich usable for this)?

by pestatijeon 2/6/2024, 9:10 AM

there are multi-sheet scanners