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Originally Posted by WaltC
You can try a DYI experiment-- Scan a few pages on your own scanner in color, 300dpi, and then first see how it looks on your computer. Does it still have nice contrast on the screen? If so, try an OCR program on it.
Finereader 11 can do OCR in B/W mode and color mode. I wouldn't think that B/W mode would work very well with highlighted text. Color mode might.
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I was just coming here to post about that. I ended up testing it with a flatbed scanner and ABBYY Sprint 9.0, and it turned out great. I used color mode and 600dpi, and the highlighted text in the PDF I made had even more contrast than the paper book, and the OCR turned out perfect. The highlighting had no perceptible negative effect.
I would assume it would be the same for the scanning services.
With the Sprint software, I can't open a PDF to OCR it, so if I want to use Sigil to make an Epub, I have to convert my scans to a text file at the time of scanning.
With the $1 scanning service, I think I will just get a searchable PDF unless I pay extra, right? So if I upgrade ABBYY, I can use the professional version to make a .txt or epub. But if I don't buy the expensive upgrade and only use Sprint, I will either have to just read the PDF on my computer or pay for extra services from Bookscan. Is this correct?