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July 22, 2023How it all began (part 2)
So began the job of turning a beaten up old paperback into a Word document. Where would I start? Over two hundred pages printed in a small font. There was no way I was gonna type it all in. And anyway, how long would it take to edit all the rubbish typing errors and grammatical balls ups?
I thought about contacting a scanning agency but I wasn't prepared to invest cash into the project at this point. Also scanning wasn't the problem; it was transposing the scan into digital copy. There had to be a way I could do it myself.
I set about researching how others did it and concluded, not only was it standard practice to scan each page and pass it through optical character recognition, but in most cases it was the only option. And if you wanted your book back in one piece, not a pile of loose pages once they'd guillotined the spine, it was more money.
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