Hello from Korea — scanned books on an e-ink reader

microhan · 11-05-2026, 12:21 AM

Hi all. I'm microhan, from Korea. I read mostly on an Onyx Boox Go Color 7 (and used a Boox Leaf and a Poke 3 before that), and a good part of what I read are books I scanned myself, which is how I ended up spending more time on margins, two-page spreads and yellowed pages than on the books.

Sirtel · 11-05-2026, 03:49 AM

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DNSB · 11-05-2026, 06:03 PM

Trying to reformat ebooks can get to be a real timesink. There have been times when I have spend more time reformatting an ebook than actually reading it.

Krishav · 11-06-2026, 09:41 PM

Welcome! Self-scanned books on a 7" screen are a fun kind of pain.

Two free tools aimed at exactly those problems, in case you haven't tried them:

- ScanTailor Advanced: splits two-page spreads, deskews, crops the margins and turns yellowed pages into clean black and white. Doing that first makes every later step better.
- k2pdfopt: re-cuts the cleaned PDF to fit the Go 7 screen, so you can read without zooming and panning.

If you want text that reflows instead of page images, OCRmyPDF adds a text layer, and from there it can be turned into an EPUB. Tesseract has a Korean model, though vertical text is still hit and miss.

What's your scanning setup, a flatbed or a phone/camera rig?

11-05-2026, 12:21 AM	#1
microhan Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2026 Device: Onyx go 7 Color	Hello from Korea — scanned books on an e-ink reader Hi all. I'm microhan, from Korea. I read mostly on an Onyx Boox Go Color 7 (and used a Boox Leaf and a Poke 3 before that), and a good part of what I read are books I scanned myself, which is how I ended up spending more time on margins, two-page spreads and yellowed pages than on the books.

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11-05-2026, 03:49 AM	#2
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 15,915 Karma: 251102653 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	Welcome to MobileRead!

11-05-2026, 06:03 PM	#3
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 55,650 Karma: 182544312 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	Trying to reformat ebooks can get to be a real timesink. There have been times when I have spend more time reformatting an ebook than actually reading it.

11-06-2026, 09:41 PM	#4
Krishav Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2026 Device: none	Welcome! Self-scanned books on a 7" screen are a fun kind of pain. Two free tools aimed at exactly those problems, in case you haven't tried them: - ScanTailor Advanced: splits two-page spreads, deskews, crops the margins and turns yellowed pages into clean black and white. Doing that first makes every later step better. - k2pdfopt: re-cuts the cleaned PDF to fit the Go 7 screen, so you can read without zooming and panning. If you want text that reflows instead of page images, OCRmyPDF adds a text layer, and from there it can be turned into an EPUB. Tesseract has a Korean model, though vertical text is still hit and miss. What's your scanning setup, a flatbed or a phone/camera rig?