[NABS-L] Scanning My Own Books

Elisa Dahill dahillelisa at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 03:37:16 UTC 2018


Have you tried Bookshare? They have so much.
Elisa


> On Dec 3, 2018, at 9:01 PM, Justin Heard via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi there.
> 
> I am angry. I want access to a lot of books that have not been made into EBooks through either Kindle or Nook, and I'm tired of waiting. These aren't bestsellers, so it could be years.
> 
> What is the most reliable method for scanning my own books? I have thought about doing this before, but when I last tried with Kurzweil1000,  or maybe 3000, I did not have the best of luck. I was using a flatbed scanner. I succeeded because I had read the book in a digital format before so I caught the mistakes. I'm looking for a way that will have a 95% success rate in recognizing text, and will allow me to save it as a word document.
> 
> Thanks for reading this.
> 
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