Thread: help. how do i convert my paperback novel to use on reader
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Old 10-07-2009, 06:16 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by charleski View Post
You left out: stripping out page numbers/headers, spell-checking (even good OCR programs can still produce howlers), tagging chapters, removing errant paragraph marks and general clean-up.

ABBYY does a reasonable job of pouring the pages into raw text, but transforming that into a properly-formatted eBook that can be read without glaring errors every page or two still requires a lot of manual editing.
They claim that FR10 has improved automatic detection of page structure: chapter headings, page numbers etc. Trial version is available now.
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