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Originally Posted by kronium
Thanks for the help Bremen and Olivier! Olivier, I would like to scan a book called Essentials of Fire Fighting, But there are a lot of pictures and diagrams. I guess making pdfs would be the best bet. Any tips on scanning, OCR, and correcting with the Sony Reader? Seems like a daunting task. Thanks
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Hello,
Scanning is not the worst task, nor OCR-ising, it's the correction after OCR which takes numerous hours.
When I make an eBook, it's mainly from novels. Some of them (Heroïc Fantasy) have some graphics at the beginning (essentially maps). So it's easy to add these few pictures as plain page graphics.
In your case, the best thing is to do a PDF, each page is considered like a picture. But you can do that only if the original size of your book is not far from the size of the eReader's screen. If not, the jpg files should appear much smaller than their actual size.
I don't (or exceptionally) use this format, because of the big size of the final document (20-30 MB instead of less than 1 MB in text format).
But, as I realized that the stupid firmware takes a lot of time to organize the internal library of the PRS-600 with a great number of files, I think tha in the future, most of my books will be in this format. Just with more SD (or MS-Pro) cards, than I intended previously. It will be hugely time saver, I think.
When scanning, you have to beware to few things, in order not to waste time :
- always place your book in the same position in the scanner.
- determine the scanning area without a lot of white space around the the text. I eliminate also the headers or foot-pages with the pages number. But if your book has a great number of pages, you have to control from time to time that the scans are OK, because, even if the book is always placed at the same place, the text area is slightly moving because of the width of the book.