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zeb · 10-28-2010, 04:32 AM

If I were you, I would do OCR on the text, so that you transform it into a text file, and use Calibre to format it to ePub. There are many OCR software that are free or/and open-source that could do a good job as long as your scanned pages are of good quality. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR_software for a rather comprehensive list.

Note: Tesseract seems to give excellent results on bitonal image scans, as seen on this article: http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/ocr-test/

Hope this helps.

10-28-2010, 04:32 AM	#2
zeb Connoisseur Posts: 73 Karma: 2634 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	If I were you, I would do OCR on the text, so that you transform it into a text file, and use Calibre to format it to ePub. There are many OCR software that are free or/and open-source that could do a good job as long as your scanned pages are of good quality. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR_software for a rather comprehensive list. Note: Tesseract seems to give excellent results on bitonal image scans, as seen on this article: http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/ocr-test/ Hope this helps. Last edited by zeb; 10-28-2010 at 04:37 AM.