A comrade said I should look into .apk if I want to scan books. Anyone know what this is?
.apk is a file format that is used to store Android apps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_application_package
For scanning books you could use CamScanner, Adobe Scan or Microsoft Lens
Nice, thanks.
Do you wanna scan books from your phone or what?
I wanna scan books in any way I can, period.
I’m also hoping to convert the pictures to text for a PDF.
Yeah but did you specifically ask about using a phone to scan? The reason I am asking is because it sounds like you need some sort of OCR software. One such software is tesseract-ocr (the only one I know of that is free and open source) . Here is a list of 3rd party applications that leverage it to provide a frontend: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/User-Projects-–-3rdParty.html
I don’t know which ones are good but maybe this will help.
Thanks!
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I think the easiest/most efficient thing would be to just buy a USB scanner for a pc. I don’t know where you live but around here they are very cheap. As somebody else said, an OCR would recognize the text in the scanned book and encode it into text you can copy/paste in a word processor.
APK is the file extension for packages to install android apps. Make sure you download from a reputable mirror. There are trojan/virus apks on shady sites.
Personally I prefer to install android apps from a FOSS only app “store” called F-Droid which tends to be safe, or from the play store if you haven’t de-googled yourself.
For example, I found this app on F-Droid: Open Note Scanner (Scan documents, handwritten notes or arts) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.todobom.opennotescanner/
Now I know what APK actually is. Thank you for that. I know what OCR is, of course. And yeah, I think a USB scanner for a PC would be better at this point. F-Droid, eh? I’ll remember that.
