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Old 10-18-2010, 10:31 AM   #57
murraypaul
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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.
If you are doing this a lot, you might want to try Abbyy FineReader. A copy of v7 should be very cheap if you can track one down.
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