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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
no, probably not. they are worth a lot to me, because i love them and want to be able to keep reading them, but they aren't very rare books necessarily. and the editions i have as i said are nothing special in those cases. they are mainly old mystery novels (Léo Malet for instance) in cheap pulp editions which are falling apart, which haven't been released as ebooks but which aren't nice enough paper books to want to keep. but i will keep them, until i can replace them, and this is frustrating because it could be years, unless i do it myself, and... i don't really want to.  |
Scanning/proofing is a pain, voice of experience. If your p-books are small enough to fit on a standard printer scanner, you might scan as TIFF files and convert them with separate scanning software. I find that this way is somewhat slower, but gives paperback the same OCR rate 99%+ as Optiscan. I forget the name of the software, and I'd have to swap packs to get it, but you have a higher DPI on these cheap printer/scanner combos than Optiscan has (300 DPI vs 100 DPI for Optiscan)