Thread: Have you EVER wanted to scan that old book?
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Old 02-20-2010, 07:23 AM   #58
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I've scanned my first book. Some 400 pages. Took a couple of hours. The import to Abby Finereader remains and then passing it on to Word. In Word I will save the content as HTML and continue the formatting from there.

One thing that got me perplexed when testing one of the scanned pages in Abby Finereader was that the text came out all garbled and I couldn't understand why. Then it hit me that Finereader was set to detect English and the scanned document wasn't in English so I had to go in and switch the language setting and after this the text was identified without problems.

As for the formatting I'm planning to acquire the following book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0024FAPF4/
http://kindleformatting.com/
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