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If we say books and professional, I think of the Internet Archive. They developed their own software which is used on the TT Scribe system, see https://archive.org/details/tabletopscribesystem . These people run an amazing operation, but even for them this still involves a lot of manual labor. In the end, what it takes is a person to grab a book and type in the title.
Jason Scott is the Internet Archive's Free Range Archivist.
You also ask at the forum of http://diybookscanner.org/ Perhaps there are users with experience...
Yes, some older books, especially in languages other than English, are not in its database, leaving you with the manual option, but it will let you index the books that are there in no time.
If you have a Mac, get a copy of Delicious Library (https://www.delicious-monster.com/) and a compatible barcode scanner, like the Flic.
If you have an Android phone, and you're happy with dealing with your phone and CSV export, you'll probably be okay with Libib (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.libib.app).
The biggest issue is that there are tonnes of books (especially if like me you have older ones) that predate ISBN. That kinda sucks - but it's life.
Been there... since my library is now a little over a thousand physical books, and in multiple languages. If you have a Mac, get a copy of Delicious Library ( https://www.delicious-monster.com/ ) and a compatible barcode scanner, like the Flic. If you have an Android phone, and you're happy with dealing with your phone and CSV export, you'll probably be okay with Libib ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=…
FWIW, that effort took a half dozen people about 3 months for somewhere on the order of 50,000 books.
I am grading them by reading level A-Z. Currently I am googling the book and then adding "reading level" to the end and then if it has it, it will show up, or I can find the Lexile number and use that as a grade also. I am using the speech to text command in google, so it doesn't take that much time.
This is a hassle and am looking into other ways to speed up this process. And or get other parents to volunteer if it was an easier process.
Was a simple process of having enough boxes and labels, and I did that anytime I had some free time. Scan a bunch of books, drop them in a box, slap a label on the box, wait for booxter to find and fetch the metadata, update the label in booxter and repeat.
Will take time, but is easily doable.
Been there... since my library is now a little over a thousand physical books, and in multiple languages. If you have a Mac, get a copy of Delicious Library ( https://www.delicious-monster.com/ ) and a compatible barcode scanner, like the Flic. If you have an Android phone, and you're happy with dealing with your phone and CSV export, you'll probably be okay with Libib ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=…
A lot of the older ones can be looked up by their Library of Congress number, IIRC from digitizing and barcoding a school library’s catalog a couple decades ago. FWIW, that effort took a half dozen people about 3 months for somewhere on the order of 50,000 books.
The flip side is that I have books in English, French, Hebrew, and Arabic. The religious Hebrew books don't have ISBNs, unless they came from a North American publisher. The same is true of the Arabic books I have. The French on the other hand went ISBN furiously - or at least enough that it scans true :)