Reddit asks: how to digitize physical-only books and train an AI to answer from them
xoxonotyour · reddit · 2026-11-12
A Reddit user has a collection of books that exist only in physical form (with permission to use) and wants to turn them into high-quality digital text for an AI model that can answer questions on content unavailable elsewhere. They ask for advice on:
- Scanning hardware: specialized book scanners or automated scanning solutions;
- OCR software: converting scanned pages into accurate, structured text;
- Automation: batch processing workflows instead of manual page-by-page work.
Essentially a data-prep question for a private-domain RAG pipeline; the discussion offers practical tool and workflow references.
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