Thread: Ebook readers - should you OCR or not?
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Old 06-29-2010, 06:24 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by crackhammer View Post
Hello folks,

At the moment, I am in the process of scanning almost all of my books before donating them. I plan to buy an ebook reader in a very recent future, haven't decided which one yet. I have Adobe Acrobat 9.0 (which is not a great OCR software, still)

I would like to know if OCRing scanned book is a good idea or not if I plan to read them on ebook readers.

Thanks in advance.
Your choice.

OCR takes a lot of touch-up to make a really great book.
Messed up punctuation marks (lost), run-together letters, like (in is OCR'd as m) need to be corrected.
Pictures and dingbats repaired or replaced.
Page headings and footers need to be removed
Footnotes



Only lightly touching on the Legality of making and having a copy of someone else's book (if you give away the master, it is NOW someone else's book).
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