From print to ePub - how I did it.
Greetings,
I have a knack for posting in the wrong forum so I hope I got this one right.
I recently made my first eBook using Sigil.
The eBook was based on an HTML version of a book.
To get to the HTML version was time consuming but I could not think of another way.
If I had OCR software I could have eliminated some of the steps.
1.) Scan all the pages the book to images
2.) Save all the page images to a PDF
3.) Open and run the OCR tool in Acrobat 6
4.) Convert the PDFs to text using PDF24
5.) Run a script on the text file which added <p> tags to the text blocks
6.) Copy the text blocks into and HTML document.
I know, I know - this is not and HTML forum.
After I had the HTML ready I then copied and pasted each chapter into a Sigil document.
I then added a few scanned image into the Sigil project.
The results are here:
https://www.EpicRoadTrips.us/epub/
Questions:
What would make this process simpler and more efficient?
Thanks,
WV-Mike