Thread: how to convert a scanned page from a book (looks like photo of page) to clean text?
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Old 11-27-2012, 03:21 PM   #32
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I would highly recommend using Scan Tailor to preprocess the images. It will deskew the images (it will also rotate and split two up images as well), select the text area and convert the images to 2bit (black & white) ready for ocr. A very useful program.
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