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sovre · 01-09-2011, 04:18 AM

I would like to convert some of my books into Gutenberg-style text files easy to read on my iPod.

I just got my scanner and began experimenting with ABBYY Finereader. Very quickly a question came to my mind: Is there an easy way to remove the page numbers at the bottom and the "chapter titles" sometimes displayed at the top of each book page? ABBYY Finereader has an option called "remove headers and footers," which I thought might do the trick, but when I tried using that option, I got no results.

Then there are the page breaks. I noticed that regardless of whether I checked the option for "keep page breaks," ABBYY was unable to correctly join or separate text from two consecutive pages. The text is always disjointed in some way where a page break occurs, and I must manually rejoin a paragraph which has been split in two, or separate two paragraphs which have gotten stuck together. Is there any easier way to deal with this issue?

Thanks for your help.

01-09-2011, 04:18 AM	#1
sovre Zealot Posts: 112 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: United States Device: iPad Mini; iPhone; Kindle Paperwhite (10th gen)	new to scanning books I would like to convert some of my books into Gutenberg-style text files easy to read on my iPod. I just got my scanner and began experimenting with ABBYY Finereader. Very quickly a question came to my mind: Is there an easy way to remove the page numbers at the bottom and the "chapter titles" sometimes displayed at the top of each book page? ABBYY Finereader has an option called "remove headers and footers," which I thought might do the trick, but when I tried using that option, I got no results. Then there are the page breaks. I noticed that regardless of whether I checked the option for "keep page breaks," ABBYY was unable to correctly join or separate text from two consecutive pages. The text is always disjointed in some way where a page break occurs, and I must manually rejoin a paragraph which has been split in two, or separate two paragraphs which have gotten stuck together. Is there any easier way to deal with this issue? Thanks for your help.