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Topic: Converting hardcopy source to Word
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| ebpenick | Posted – 5/20/2007 1:31:08 AM | show profile | email poster I'm working on a book that draws from multiple hardcopy sources (no electronic file). Can anyone recommend a good way of converting these to Word? The hardcopies amount to about 200 pages total. Thanks. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 5/20/2007 3:18:59 AM | show profile scanning with text recognition is fine, but it still needs to be gone over knowledgeably, because text scanning software is imperfect, and mistakes will be made and can be easily overlooked. Something I have done is to make copies of the pages, research from the copies and highlight the portions I want typed out. Then have someone -- a student, a typist, yourself -- type in those portions. Take care for copyright concerns too. |
| ebpenick | Posted – 5/20/2007 1:47:33 PM | show profile | email poster scanning with text recognition software thank you for your help! can you recommend a specific text recognition software? is it expensive? i don't have a scanner but may be able to find access to one. finally, do you think this is something that could be easily outsourced to, say, a kinkos? |
| writesonwater | Posted – 5/20/2007 2:19:08 PM | show profile Kinko's will generally charge you per page to scan. And even though they scan it, you will be best off correcting the mistake-laden scanned text yourself. You will be best off to buy a reasonable scanner, which will likely come with both regular image and text scanning softeware (check). But remember to edit like a hawk, if you choose this route, as text recognition softwares aren't smart like you are, just the way it is. For what it's worth, that's my two cents worth. |
| ebpenick | Posted – 5/20/2007 7:02:10 PM | show profile Thank you again! |
