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Originally Posted by RobertDDL
I've used them, but I've been even happier with bookscan.us - they have lower fees, and they offer b/w scans that give you much smaller files and work at least as well with Abbyy as 1dollarscan's color scans do.
(Disclaimer: my experiences with both are more than 2 years old, maybe things have changed.) |
You can scan any say book scan pdf from sites like 1dollarscan in B/W in Abbyy. I have done this. What I do is import the pdf into Abbyy as B/W then export the images to a folder. They will be in literally two colors black and white images not greyscale. I then go through each image in a Windows Picture Viewer looking for imperfections. If I find any I open it up in Photoshop and edit them out and save the images. Once I'm satisfied with the images, I Import them into Abbyy and then have it analyze and read the images to OCR Text. I find this really helps elimate many scan errors then you just have to decide how important little mispellings are to you. I don't do much editing after that just save to html other than formatting and broken sentences, missing punctuation that I use a separate program to fix those.
In the case of using text to speech or a screen reader I agree, you will need to do some serious editing to ensure the story makes sense.
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