I have a bunch of old newspapers I'd like to digitally archive and then dispose of, to make space. I'm willing to fork out for some OCR software so when I scan them in they are searchable.
Thing is, being newspapers, they won't fit in my A4 scanner. They are tabloid format so around A3 per page.
Is there a way I can still scan them in A4, stitch them together, AND still have the OCR preserved?
If your phone has a half-decent camera, use that. Google Drive has a built-in feature to scan with your camera, or you can use a dedicated app like CamScanner. As long as you lay the pages reasonably flat, the software will do all the corrections automatically and you'll get something comparable to a flatbed scan. I use Google Drive all the time for scanning receipts and invoices and it works brilliantly.
Or just fuck it off and go to your local library, who almost certainly have online access to the British Newspaper Archive.
>>28777 Let's call using my phone one option if I can't get my original method to work, then. As I said, I'm willing to pay, so is CamScanner the best app from those available?
