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Originally Posted by Toxaris
You might be better off just scanning the books. That would be easier I think.
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On a related note, it's odd that this came up; I received a boatload of PDF's, marked "scans" today, from a client, who wants to turn them into ebooks. But they're not scans; they from a smartphone feature called "scan." In reality, he took pictures of his pages (at all sorts of cockamamie angles, sideways, you-name-it); they were apparently saved as old-style imaged PDF's, and then he sent them to me to "be converted."
Honestly, I didn't even know where to START to explain it. (This in addition to this line: "I don't have the financial resources to do..."). I told him that having us scan/ocr the images, make a digital file, etc., from it wouldn't be one iota cheaper than paying a competent scanner to scan from his typed manuscript file, and the latter would be a crapload more accurate. I wish I could show you guys, but, damn, the "scans" are just really, really BAD. I don't know how folks can think we can wave a magic wand and make it work. He seems really nice and all that, but...DAMN.
(Oh, and I forgot: it looks like half the pages are marked-up in handwriting. {SIGH}. I had a "Clay Davis moment" when I saw that. It's just that type of day.)
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