Comrades, I just got an old 80s theory book from an older comrade as a gift and you’re lucky to even find a used print-version anywhere, let alone a pdf version. Even the title of the book itself yields a handful of results at most. So I thought: This shit needs to be digitized.
Thing is, I don’t have it in me to pull this thing apart just to scan it. Scanning via phone is suboptimal in my experience and doesn’t yield the best results to read on a kindle/pdf-reader. I’d be willing to just retype the thing, but at 300 pages that’s quite the workload too.
Is there a good way to do this that’s not super out there, expensive or time consuming?
I use a scanner for work, if u manage to scan 2 pages at a time and u can automatize/macro the commands to the software you can scan the whole book in an half an hour to an hour, without counting “digital binding” or other editing works.
With photos the quality will be way lower but it will take way less time (scanners actually take time to scan, like 10 secs or so per scan, at least my - cheap- model)
Got any tips how to automatize that process? Because as it stands I need to switch between scanner and PC between every scan, which is a bit scuffed doing that 300 times
I tried Adobe’s Scan App and that kinda works, but text-recognition only really works on the right-hand pages. Plus it has all kinds of annoying limits, like a 25page cap, no exporting documents on free, etc
What scanner do you use? Does that scanner has some included software? My Canon scanner has a decent software
It’s an HP Envy 5530. It does have included software, but last time I used it it was dogshit bloatware though lol
Does the software for yours allow macros/automation itself?
my software is basic but decent, if the scanner isnt far from the pc you could look at bringing ur mouse to the scanner n saving yourself the trip to the pc every time
my software has a “1-click scan” system does your software have it?
in the end, it’s easier done than said, even if a bit long and boring