Title. I got a hold of a couple books (one text, other,images) that I would like to make it available to others and the don’t exists in digital format. Photos to PDF? Or something that converts IMG to text?

  • albert180@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Our university library has a high performance book scanner. Maybe yours has one too. It costs like 1 Cent per 10 Pages, but it’s so fast it might be worth checking out if yours has one too. You can extract then the text from the images with tesseract. There are some ready tools that will do this for you to make the PDF searchable

      • albert180@feddit.de
        4·
        1 year ago

        You do by hand, but it goes very fast. It’s like a table, you lay it open (text upside), it scans, you flip it scans. You don’t have to open/close anything. Just flip like every second. So for a book with 120 pages you would need like 60 seconds

        • someguy3
          3·
          1 year ago

          Usually I think of scanner like a photocopier, this sounds more like it takes a picture?

            • someguy3
              1·
              1 year ago

              You know what I mean. So it’s more of a camera than a scanner?

              • albert180@feddit.de
                2·
                1 year ago

                Well it still has this Bright light like advancing. But the sensor is like 1m above the table. Honestly I don’t know if this makes it more a camera or a scanner

              • frenchyy94@feddit.de
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                1 year ago

                My old uni library has 2 of those too. It’s basically a fixed camera, but the table you set the book on, has a sort of negative nook that lets you level out the book. So no matter on which page you are, the pages on the book will be on the same level.