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rhewes · 10-13-2008, 05:20 PM

I've been working on a similar project of converting pBooks to eBooks. I bought a double sided scanner (Fujitsu Scan...something) and scanned in both sides of the page at the same time. [Note, I did destroy the book in order to get the pages into the scanner.] All in all, it took me about 2 hours to scan everything in, combine the chapters into a single PDF file and then OCR the entire set. I used Readris on my Mac to OCR and Preview to work with the PDF files.

I just got my Reader on Saturday, but the OCR text came back "OK" with an acceptable number of errors. I'm still playing with things, but looking at just the images of the book pages (re-sized to the Reader dimensions and stored in a PDF file) on my Sony Reader (505) seems to work great. There is a longer delay in loading the page, and I can't change the font size, but I can still read the book. Much nicer than lugging the big book around with my computer, etc. on trips.

Couldn't find an eBook of the series anywhere, so I opted for the old fashioned way...a used pBook and a knife.

10-13-2008, 05:20 PM	#32
rhewes Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: Sony Reader 505	I've been working on a similar project of converting pBooks to eBooks. I bought a double sided scanner (Fujitsu Scan...something) and scanned in both sides of the page at the same time. [Note, I did destroy the book in order to get the pages into the scanner.] All in all, it took me about 2 hours to scan everything in, combine the chapters into a single PDF file and then OCR the entire set. I used Readris on my Mac to OCR and Preview to work with the PDF files. I just got my Reader on Saturday, but the OCR text came back "OK" with an acceptable number of errors. I'm still playing with things, but looking at just the images of the book pages (re-sized to the Reader dimensions and stored in a PDF file) on my Sony Reader (505) seems to work great. There is a longer delay in loading the page, and I can't change the font size, but I can still read the book. Much nicer than lugging the big book around with my computer, etc. on trips. Couldn't find an eBook of the series anywhere, so I opted for the old fashioned way...a used pBook and a knife.