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Originally Posted by SolRaven
How do you go about doing that? Do you use a flatbed scanner? I have a friend who wrote a biography about his father in 1986 which is out of print. It would probably bring tears to his eyes to see that someone took the time to digitize his work.
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Yes, I scan the book using a flatbed scanner. Being old paperbakcs, and having fewer than 200 pages, they don't need any pressure to get a good clear scan. I then run the scans through Photoshop (using Actions) to crop and improve the contrast, save them as TIFFs.
Microsoft Office has an OCR feature, and I run the scans through that into a Word document. Then the real work begins, comparing the scanned pages to the text and making the necessary corrections.