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Old 12-08-2011, 03:20 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Chi Cygni View Post
I was going to make a separate post about it but anyway here goes:

scanner mouse which allows easy scanning, has OCR included. You can apparently scan text, save it as Word and voila, edit or whatever. I would then put it into calibre immediately -> epub, mobi. Will buy it for husband methinks (ok, I admit, I have some sinister plans about it too)

link for some info http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/07/l...ouse-hands-on/

there are also films on youtube if you put LG LSM-100 (or Google, of course)
Fine for extracting a few lines of text; hardly practical for scanning an entire book, I suspect!
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