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Mr. Dalliard · 10-21-2009, 08:50 PM

Scanning a pbook is not as tough as it once was.
If you are prepared to chop the book up, you could quite easily scan a 1000 page novel to a pdf at 600dpi in around 20 minutes on a half-decent copier.

You could then feed that into the latest ABBYY finereader and OCR it with 99.9% accuracy, with original formatting, in around 2 hours on a sufficiently powerful PC.

What's more, both stages are fully automated processes.

10-21-2009, 08:50 PM	#24
Mr. Dalliard Zealot Posts: 143 Karma: 35 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Osaka, Japan Device: Kindle 3	Scanning a pbook is not as tough as it once was. If you are prepared to chop the book up, you could quite easily scan a 1000 page novel to a pdf at 600dpi in around 20 minutes on a half-decent copier. You could then feed that into the latest ABBYY finereader and OCR it with 99.9% accuracy, with original formatting, in around 2 hours on a sufficiently powerful PC. What's more, both stages are fully automated processes. Last edited by Mr. Dalliard; 10-21-2009 at 08:52 PM.