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Originally Posted by HarryT
6000 pages would certainly explain it, but I fear you underestimate the work required to edit such a mammoth work. If you paid someone the minimum wage to do it for you, it would cost you thousands of pounds. The best thing to do is to use a good OCR program (as I've already mentioned), convert it to ePub (for ease of editing) and then learn how to use an ePub editor, such as Calibre or Sigil.
However you do it, you have a huge job ahead of you. Certainly hundreds of hours of work. I've edited many (hundred) eBooks, and being able to do 10 pages an hour is fast, so 6000 pages is at least 600 hours work. A lot more, given the fact that I'm guessing you'd be starting the learning experience of how to edit a book from quite a low level of current knowledge.
Anyway, try the OCR, and see where it gets you. Do you have access to a good OCR program?
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Harry, thanks so much for your advice here.
I will try the OCR method when I get home. I have to be honest, if not great at using the converter software. I haven’t found a decent step by step tutorial, just pages with technical wording etc. that I don’t get so well.
And yes, I didn’t realise it would take that long to work on and would need THAT much work so obviously that would be expensive.
As for access to OCR software, no I don’t have any at the moment but I guess there are a few free ones online? You suggested Abbyy Finereader. I will look for that.