From: Joel Pearson <lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-22T18:34:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Select "columns" from multidimensional array?

There are various ways to create a database from excel files, so that 
should be fine. I can't really think of a more effective way to pull the 
data from books, apart from trying out different OCR programs. The 
necessity of scanning and manual checking pretty much renders moot any 
attempt to accelerate that process.

Depending on the amount of data, you might actually get better 
performance
out of a skilled typist doing transcription. It might be worth timing 
the two against each other.

I assume there's no chance of getting the original data these books were 
printed from? That would be the ideal solution.

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