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drobble · 06-05-2020, 02:44 PM

Hello,

I'm was checking the calibre forum to find an answer to some questions.
background:
I have a printed book (in German) with over 1000 pages. This book is not available as EPUB.
I started a small 'test' project and scanned 10 pages of the book.
Then I processed the images (jpg's) with tesseract to get txt files.
Each scanned page = one jpg = one txt file.

My question is now:
How can I in an 'automated' fashion convert these txt files, remember it will be iver 1000 pages/files, to one EPUB ebook?

Can I use a script and reference file (for the 1000 txt files) to produce that ebook with Calibre?

Any help is much appreciated
drobble

06-05-2020, 02:44 PM	#1
drobble Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2020 Device: Google tablet	a project to scan and convert a printed book to EPUB format Hello, I'm was checking the calibre forum to find an answer to some questions. background: I have a printed book (in German) with over 1000 pages. This book is not available as EPUB. I started a small 'test' project and scanned 10 pages of the book. Then I processed the images (jpg's) with tesseract to get txt files. Each scanned page = one jpg = one txt file. My question is now: How can I in an 'automated' fashion convert these txt files, remember it will be iver 1000 pages/files, to one EPUB ebook? Can I use a script and reference file (for the 1000 txt files) to produce that ebook with Calibre? Any help is much appreciated drobble