Hello everyone,
I have a complete collection of what was probably the best ever french language magazine. Various sites have it in .jpg scans, which is not very useful if you want to copy & paste in particular.
OCR won't work well enough as far as I'm concerned/on my platform (multi-column text, images, warped/rotated text, ...), therefore I'm aware I will have to put in a lot of hard work to create usable documents, but my motivation is high (for now
).
I do believe in open formats, so a rough first search led me to believe Sigil as a tool, and epub as a format would be adapted to what I have in mind, which is to create a usable (in particular the text parts must be copy/pastable) copy of my magazine collection, which looks as close as possible to the original presentation of the mag.
Would you concur? And if you don't, could you suggest something more useful?
An ideal tool would take a jpg scan, and allow me to select text zones and OCR / edit these zones, then produce an open format, such as epub.
Best regards,
Sebastian