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Originally Posted by blue_skies
Does that depend on the scanner? I was thinking of getting a VuPoint handheld scanner or the Ion Book Saver if it ever comes out, and I thought they automatically save as photos or PDFs. I could be wrong though since I haven't looked at those scanners very closely.
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I think that I wrote something misleading. There is a button in ABBYY Fine Reader that allows you to import from your scanner. Obviously, what you import is an image, which ABBYY then does an OCR on, allowing you to correct and save the results in several different formats. ABBYY has excellent multi-language OCR.
But, in the end, NicholasV is right -- it is simply not worth your trouble to scan a paper book. Shop around. There are many free ebooks out there, and there are sometimes significant price differences between vendors.