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Originally Posted by jayne80
I use an old flat bed scanner, a heavy object for holding down the book and a copy of omnipagepro 15 or 16 can't remember which, I scan the book straight into omnipage, then block out the text to OCR it and save to .doc format which makes it easier for me to edit.
90% of the time all i need to do to it is check the formatting which in general is just replace the paragraph marks with @@@ then do a find and replace for @@@" .@@@ etc replacing them with paragraphmark" etc then make sure that any chapters are seperated out....
It may not be perfect but it's good enough to read after being run through mobipocket creator.
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I have come to the (perhaps obvious) conclusion that whichever version of FineReader one uses, it's better to do one's editing with an external word processor rather than attempting to do it within the FineReader software (which I believe anyway is only possible -- but unwieldly -- with the Pro 10). While I have both Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect on my computer, I have found WordPerfect in fact to be far easier to effect the final formatting. And for some reason only the basic Sprint, and not apparently the heavily-featured Pro 10, permits transferring the scanned images to WordPerfect.
I am puzzled, though, by your description of replacing "the paragraph marks with @@@ then do a find and replace for @@@" .@@@ etc replacing them with paragraphmark." What does this accomplish?
Anyway, to emphasize, I have found formatting my titles with WordPerfect much faster (and easier) than with Word. But maybe it's just because I'm possibly more adept at using WordPerfect than Word. We all have (evolved) our separate methodologies for this book scanning and formatting procedure.