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Originally Posted by joehunt
LOL! My friend has a specific need for digital text. I told him to buy the book and scan it and he is now moaning that the book is 740 pages long and scanning each page will take him *forever*.
He was hoping to just have the audiobook "read" into a word document and magically have the text appear  Any ideas? |
There are specialized bound-book scanners. There are service bureaus that will scan and OCR it for him for a cost. I cannot see the speech-to-text being practical with current technology.
Unless you're content to end up with text the quality of a Google Voice transcription:
http://gvtranscripts.tumblr.com/
ApK