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Scan it? Take a picture? What then? I'm sure there are applications out there, but are they accurate? Any (free) recommendations?
Thanks 🙂
IIRC, Google Drive has some OCR technology built in.
Regardless of the application you'll still need to proof-read/edit.
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Scan the pages. Use on-line service such as http://www.onlineocr.net/. Will still need careful proof reading.
Adobe Acrobat does it. I think it's free.
Or there's a version that is. Hopefully a version that's got the character recogniction...
I've got a free app called Text Detective on my iPhone. Works well. (Except it doesn't preserve line breaks.)
That's great chaps, thanks.
Yes, I'd assumed the results would need proof-reading.
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That's great chaps, thanks.Yes, I'd assumed the results would need proof-reading.
Judging by the eBooks I've aquired, and that includes some Kindle books, there are people out there who consider a scan and a quick run through OCR 'ware to be all that's needed.
I don't agree, I bought a Larry Niven ebook that I knew very well, and it was unreadable, just dreadful.
I've looked into trying to edit ebooks, but it's a royal pain, it all has to be done with codes for headers, line breaks, pagination, etc.
I wish there was some way of being able to open the book in an application, edit the text, then save it back with all the technical stuff intact.