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Ea · 10-09-2009, 09:09 AM

I use a Canon CanoScan LiDE 25 scanner. It's quite cheap, around 50 USD, and you just install the driver, plug in the USB cable to your computer and scan. It came with OmniPage OCR (Optical Character Recognition), that turns the scanned images into text. It has worked okay, but the files do require clean-up and proofreading. It is definitely easiest to scan individual pages of a book that has been cut up, and it gives you the best scan. The quality of the original pages is also important - small low quality print on cheap pulpy paper, makes it harder for the OCR software to recognise the text.

10-09-2009, 09:09 AM	#19
Ea Wizard Posts: 3,490 Karma: 5239563 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Denmark Device: Kindle 3\|iPad air\|iPhone 4S	I use a Canon CanoScan LiDE 25 scanner. It's quite cheap, around 50 USD, and you just install the driver, plug in the USB cable to your computer and scan. It came with OmniPage OCR (Optical Character Recognition), that turns the scanned images into text. It has worked okay, but the files do require clean-up and proofreading. It is definitely easiest to scan individual pages of a book that has been cut up, and it gives you the best scan. The quality of the original pages is also important - small low quality print on cheap pulpy paper, makes it harder for the OCR software to recognise the text.