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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Nope, not writing it from scratch.
I have a very complicated manual, it is cross-referenced to no end. It is extremely structured, hence very terse in its prose.
A typical sentence will read something like; "This pertains to 1-L-0-B, 2-A-D-1 and components 7-E-3 as well as 7-E-4.
Then off course you have to look up all those references in order to figure out what the whole thing is all about.
So, having purchased a Kindle 2i it just struck me that this particular book would be sooo much easier to handle as E-book. Hence, I'm thinking of scanning it and make it into a MOBI file. Is there some software out there that lets me create all the cross-referencing with a fair amount of ease? (I've done it in Word and it is a tedious process).
Would a project like this violate copyrights? (I'm not going to sell copies of i content is way too esoteric) Any help and advice you can offer would be most welcome.
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I suspect you are going to have to do this the long way, I doubt there is any software that can take a scanned page, use OCR, and then collate references (though I may be wrong).
You have a mammoth task ahead of you. You bought the book ? if so, there is some argument that the copyright allows you to media-shift for your purposes only, in a similar fashion that allows a CD to be ripped to mp3 - but it depends on your country's copyright laws.