Sud,
The Microsoft services I believe charge on a per page/1000 page type process, but think it decreased while in Preview. So an Open source solution might still be a better bet.
How is the lighting when using the USB camera? Was one of the thoughts I had, although a simple lighting setup just for this purpose wouldn’t be a bad idea. The overhead scanner I’m looking at for other projects I’m working on might be a viable solution.
I’ll look and see what forms I have. Being that they are patient data, there are restrictions with sharing them, but I might have some training documents I can dig up.
Last, althought this discussion is in the OpenMRS forums I didn’t want to assume. Do you use OpenMRS for the actual record storage once scanned? This would fit with what we’ve been looking at. Would give us a way to get historical records in the system, but also move forward with a digital record system.
We are currently reviewing our “Patient Data Ecosystem” and deciding how best to get past and future records in that same system.
Ken