Thread: DRM'd books
View Single Post
Old 04-03-2009, 05:20 PM   #19
AnemicOak
Bookaholic
AnemicOak ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AnemicOak ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AnemicOak ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AnemicOak ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AnemicOak ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AnemicOak ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AnemicOak ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AnemicOak ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AnemicOak ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AnemicOak ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.AnemicOak ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
AnemicOak's Avatar
 
Posts: 14,391
Karma: 54969924
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Minnesota
Device: iPad Mini 4, AuraHD, iPhone XR +
Quote:
Originally Posted by phenomshel View Post
The scanning I was doing, and the reason it took me so long, is because I'm using an HP flatbed scanner, and I'm having to manually run the software, get up, turn page, position book again, etc. and so forth. An easier solution would definitely be welcome.
Does your scanner have any buttons across the front? The Microtek scanner I'm using has a text button on the front so it's just a matter of flipping the pages replacing the book and hitting the button to do each set of two pages which are then saved to an RTF file. No going back the the computer each time. I've got about an hour into my project and have managed 105 pages all proofed and checked (I've been proofing and checking a chapter at a time).

The Microtek uses ABBYY Finereader for OCR and I've found it about 98% accurate which helps too.

Last edited by AnemicOak; 04-03-2009 at 05:22 PM.
AnemicOak is offline   Reply With Quote