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Originally Posted by philodox
I've got a couple old books that are nearly falling apart... might be fun to try a scanner with auto feed. Destroying the books wouldn't be a problem at this point. Are there any decent and cheap ones that will take a scan of each side and keep the pages in the right order?
Once I have the images it would be easy enough [though perhaps time consuming] to reformat them as a PDF and use the built in OCR in Adobe Acrobat. Are there PDF to mobi convertors?
Even though each step may take a long time, if I can get a system working that only requires a small amount of user input between these large steps, it might be worth my while.  |
Tried that with a circa sixties book. The paper was so bad that the first page actually got shreaded in the scanner, causing a paper block and necessitating a dismanteling of the device to get at the pieces.
The software included with the machine can take care of the order the pages come out, provided you don't make mistakes in feeding.
Do you have Acrobat Pro? I didn't know it did OCR!?!