Thread: Ebook readers - should you OCR or not?
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Old 06-29-2010, 05:23 PM   #10
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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.
This isn't an either/or situation. You won't need the original books to do OCR in the future as long as the pdf's are reasonably legible. You could just create the pdf's, try them on an ereader, and then perform OCR on the pdf's if the results aren't satisfactory.
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