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Originally Posted by scotty1024
Uh folks, if you read scanned PDF's on the iLiad (or Sony Reader) they'll be scaled to fit and not look their best.
If on the other hand you OCR and create the PDF (or work from Baen/Gutenberg sources) the iLiad will use nice crisply generated glyphs.
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Moral of the story: OCR'd PDF's (e.g. text PDF's) are clearer than non-OCR'd PDF's (e.g. image per page PDF's.)
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Which is why I'm thinking we should probably have a nice thread somewhere on scanning and OCR - what scanners are good for the average home user, what OCR software to use, reviews, recommendations, personal tales of horror and joy - anyone?
I would really like to start scanning my Winnie-the-Pooh books so I can read them to the kids wherever...
I have a scanner/printer combo monster that's really impractical for book scanning - can anyone recommend a small one that could process, say, a paperback in a reasonable amount of time? And I'm totally at a loss as to which OCR software to choose...