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I think the easiest would be to use kooka or xsane, scan an image and do OCR or importing an existing image into kooka and do OCR.
*There is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CuneiForm_(software) CuneiForm] for ocr image to text.
*A [http://groundstate.ca/ocr review] of free optical character recognition software under Linux.
*A [http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/06/iliad_scan robot scans Ancient Manuscript in 3-D]. Also, This summer a group of graduate and undergraduate students of Greek will gather at the [http://chs.harvard.edu/ Center for Hellenic Studies] in Washington, D.C., to produce XML transcriptions of the text. Eventually, their work will be posted online for anyone to search under [http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ Creative Commons] licence.
*[http://www.geocities.jp/takascience/lego/fabs_en.html How to make a full Auto Book Scanner] with LEGO ... *[http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/book-flipping-scanning Superfast scanner lets you digitize a book by rapidly flipping pages]
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