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AnemicOak · 06-30-2011, 11:17 AM

I've done one book, one because I'm pretty sure it being digitized isn't going to happen for a long time (if ever) and two because I wanted to go through the whole scan/ocr/proof process to have some experience with how things worked.

It was a bit tedious as I didn't want to destroy the pbook so I did each page on a flat bed, but it wasn't too bad since I wasn't in a hurry (I just did a handful of chapters on my lunch hour each day until I was done). For OCR I used the Finereader engine that came with the aging Microtek scanner I worked with (didn't want to buy the full version for a one time project/experiment) and was surprised how well it worked. I checked the text against the physical book page by page and the whole process scanning, OCR to final ePub took about 8 hours.

06-30-2011, 11:17 AM	#22
AnemicOak Bookaholic Posts: 14,391 Karma: 54969924 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Minnesota Device: iPad Mini 4, AuraHD, iPhone XR +	I've done one book, one because I'm pretty sure it being digitized isn't going to happen for a long time (if ever) and two because I wanted to go through the whole scan/ocr/proof process to have some experience with how things worked. It was a bit tedious as I didn't want to destroy the pbook so I did each page on a flat bed, but it wasn't too bad since I wasn't in a hurry (I just did a handful of chapters on my lunch hour each day until I was done). For OCR I used the Finereader engine that came with the aging Microtek scanner I worked with (didn't want to buy the full version for a one time project/experiment) and was surprised how well it worked. I checked the text against the physical book page by page and the whole process scanning, OCR to final ePub took about 8 hours.