Conversion to eBook

[CodeRedDew]

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For those of you that convert your physical books into searchable PDF eBooks, what do you use?

Do you unbind the books and scan them using a school/business (Staples, etc) scanner? I'm looking for ways to digitize all of my books, but have no access to a sheetfed scanner and Staples charges $.50 per page.

And I'm curious if anyone uses a specific type of OCR software or has a scanner that automatically converts a scanned document into a searchable PDF.

 

[deleted500612]

I have a canon printer/scanner all-in-one device and default software allows you to save scanned pages as .pdf files by default. Scanning every page of several thick text books through a normal home scanner would take a gargantuan amount of time though and would certainly not be worth it... I'd recommend checking out specialty stores in your area that offer book binding and copy type services, might get a better deal than at staples. There are pdf versions of a lot of texts already floating around the net also.

 

[GopherMD]

http://1dollarscan.com/

I personally haven't tried it but seems legit.