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Old 09-29-2014, 05:53 AM   #7
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Hi adrenaline

I routinely buy out of print ebooks and send them for scanning. Based on my own experience:

1. No scanning service can convert a pdf into a decent epub/mobi. There are too many OCR errors in scanning to even consider this, so save the $10.

2. A pdf scan of 1200 dpi for an ebook is overkill and just produces a monstrously large file that will choke most programs.

3. I buy the books to read, so my workflow is to convert the pdf to html in Abbyy Finereader and then to convert the html to epub using Sigil. I have a pretty good idea of what to look for now, so the whole process is not that tedious and time consuming. My accuracy rate is about 95%, which is sufficient for me since I do the conversion for my own use only (I'd rather spend the time reading instead of comparing every single character).

If you only need the ebooks to search text, would not a simple scan to pdf with OCR work? Why would you need to further convert them to epub/mobi?
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