The space-saving advantages of scanned books are immediately obvious.
In this era of the Kindle, the Sony Reader, and the smartphone, gadget lovers wish to rid themselves of physical bookshelves and move to an entirely electronic format. But what can be done with your assembled library when making the transition? It is possible to scan your beloved books and format them electronically. You can either scan your books yourself or hire a service to do it for you.
Instructions
1. Separate the pages of your book from the binding. You can slice the pages away from the binding, or you can slice off the binding so that you have a pile of individual pages, rather than a bound set. This will make it possible to scan your pages through a feeder, and will help the pages to lie flat.
2. Scan each page of the book. You can do this manually, or by placing a stack of pages into an automatic feeder on your scanner.
3. Enable optical character recognition (OCR) for your text. If you wish to search within your scanned text and use other advanced features of a digital book, you will need to use an OCR program on your scanned text. There are several free programs available, or you can purchase a program with more features and greater accuracy.
4. Check for errors. Once you have run your OCR program, you will want to check for errors. The simplest way to do this is to run spell check on the text in order to quickly find errors.
5. Convert your books into the appropriate format. Different brands of electronic readers use different file formats. Use your computer to convert the files to the format which is compatible with your reader, if necessary.
6. Use a book scanning service, if you desire. Different services are available in different areas. Contact a service and arrange for scanning. Note that book scanning services do not return your books after scanning. The physical books are destroyed and replaced with digital copies.
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