ebook workflow advice please
I had an idea of taking a textbook for work and converting it to an eBook and then perhaps into an audio book. Of course this is not as easy as I had hoped it would be (the learning curve is steep) but I am having fun learning how to do it.
I first scanned the pages with the zerox copier at work to tiff files with a resolution of 400. I think this is a good format to use however; I can also scan the pages into JPEG, XPS or PDF. Which format would you recommend? Keep in mind that I don't have the adobe acrobat editing software nor any XPS editing software just the viewers and any freeware I might be able to use. However the PDF and XPS formats in the copier does have an option for OCR output which would eliminate that extra step later on
I scanned the first chapter as a test in the Tiff format and used Scan Tailor to split and align the pages. I tried to use Cuneiform OCR software on the tiff files and it seems to work well.
I have also learned that I can combine the single Tiff files into one multiple tiff file using the IrfanView software if I need to do so.
However, if I should use the Cuneiform OCR software at all, what format should the OCR output be in to make the process as simple as possible
The choices are formatted text (*.txt), HTML (*.htm), Interior Format (*.fed), Rich Text Format (*.rtf), table Text of DBF format (*.dbf), table text (*.txt) or finally unformatted text (*.txt)
How do I combine the many pages of output text regardless of the format into a usable eBook?
Epub format would be a nice final choice but any format that I could convert to other formats using Calibrie would be good.
Please keep in mind that the text book has some photos and a few graphs and tables but mostly text, my O.S. is Windows 7, I am fairly tech savvy but software programming is beyond my realm of knowledge (I am a wastewater treatment plant operator by profession) and this is a low budget protect so I don't want to buy any expensive software like Adobe Acrobat to get this accomplished.
I am sure there are many paths I could take to get this accomplished. Any thoughts or advice that would make my process as simple as possible would be much appreciated.
Thanks
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