The tool I use is gscan2pdf http://freecode.com/projects/gscan2pdf
Open source ORC is not very good though. Richard On Thursday, January 23, 2014 14:46:26 Dan Egli wrote: > I was letting my mind wander last night, and I got to thinking about all > these older magazines that I have stashed in various places. I kept them > because they had interesting articles and the like. I was wondering if > there was an easy way to convert them into a digital format, so I can > recycle the dead trees. It's not just the idea of capturing the text and > OCRing it, though. Many have pictures that are a vital part of the article. > My first thought was to write a PDF, but I don't see an easy way to do > that. All I can think of on that is to scan each page into an image file > (jpeg or similar), then import them into a LibreOffice document, then save > that document in PDF format. I imagine that would work, but it would also > kill text searching, I'd think. I suppose I could scan the images in, then > scan the text in, OCR it, and then re-format it for the PDF, but that seems > like a LOT of work. Especially as I think I have over 50 old issues of > various magazines lying around in storage that I'd like to convert. > > > > Does anyone know of any easy methods for converting articles on paper, with > images, into something digitally readable? I don't care if it's PDF or ePub > or something else, as long as it looks decent on the computer screen, and I > can search text within the article. > > > > Thanks folks! > > --- Dan > > > P.S. No, none of these magazines maintain electronic copies online that I'm > aware of. I know Maximum PC and PC Gamer do, but others do not. Some are > even discontinued, like a few old copies of PC Magazine. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
