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Originally Posted by DSpider
No point in dishing out $1k for a DSLR.
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Holy cow! Why would you want to pay so much for a scanner camera?? Mid to low end cameras these days are more than capable of doing the job...300 dpi for a 10 in x 12 in image (more than large enough for 99% of books) only needs a 10 Megapixel camera.
When I built my scanner, I got 2 cheap cameras for $60 - total.
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Originally Posted by DSpider
Especially if you know how to work in Photoshop and Illustrator, and vectorize graphics such as charts, graphs, line art, chapter decorations, etc.
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That is something I haven't done yet, but it sounds interesting. I get tired of mini graphics that don't scale very well. Do you know of a site with a tutorial on vectorization?? (I'm competent in photoshop - but no expert)
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Originally Posted by DSpider
export as RTF, run my own macro that removes the styles and everything else
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I'm not sure why you would want to export to RTF if you are going to remove all the styles anyway - why not just export to text?
Until Sigil came along I would export to HTML then use a text editor with a few regex find/replace actions that would clean up all the extraneous styling, but keep the bold/italics/scene changes etc. Then I would manually add a specific style to headers, and special sections of text (letters, poetry, etc.) That ended up taking about 30 minutes.
It's about the same amount of time with Sigil, but when I'm done I just hit save, and its a well formed, clean ePub. Then I use book view in sigil to proof read the book. I can correct any errors in the document as I go - very simple. Total time to scan and clean: 1.5 - 3 hrs. Time to proofread...depends on the length of my honey-do list...
Cheers!