[NABS-L] Scanning My Own Books

[Justin Heard]

I did try the school library, but a lot of these books come from seminaries and monasteries so they don’t have them. Several are several centuries old but have only recently been translated to English. They are academic, but only if you’re focusing your studies like I am. 

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> On Dec 4, 2018, at 6:30 AM, Karl Martin Adam via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I can't help you with scanning, but have you tried Bookshare?  Also, if you're a student, have you tried your school library (if you're looking for academic books, any decent university library should get you access to a lot through Oxford Scholarship Online, Cambridge Core, and Proquest.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Justin Heard via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 21:01:07 -0500
> Subject: [NABS-L] Scanning My Own Books
> 
> 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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