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how to convert a scanned page from a book (looks like photo of page) to clean text?
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11-23-2012, 06:14 AM
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Sure. Lots of times. Not for a book, but for all sorts of other documents (PDFs of journal articles, etc). OCR isn't perfect - you'll still need to proof-read the book to get it perfect - but Abbyy does an excellent job.
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