This one is going to be a continuation from the last time I talked about was and how to scan something and what your options for.
Now, basically this one is going to be on OCR or you know converting image text to actual text because on an image you can’t highlight it, you can’t search it but on the text format you cannot actually search it like you know what in the PDF and all of that and you can highlight in everything, so that’s what we’re going to do.
Now this one is great for college students because we always get jacked by the school, the system. Every new class or every new semester you’re going to buy books and if you try to sell the book back on a sell back day or something, that means you’re being jacked because you have to pay like maybe the payback like a fraction of what you pay for and the book is practically new, and I always hated that and I always hate fucking buying books and the books is the biggest sale too you know, it’s like the Bible and that shit hurts okay.
So, I recommend checking out your Library if they have a scanner in there, and that let you borrow books of course and make sure the book that you want to borrow is actually there or if that is no more ask your classmate that has one, use them. So the first day of semester or something or the first day of class try make as many friends as you can, that’s usually what I do and I use them later this is how you do to get access to a book though.
So after that you get access to a book, scan it okay scan that – so I scan my book here I mean just this one chapter that I needed, and let me show you. Now this one was at the Library so I cannot do like I really you know, high contrast, high pdi. This one is like about 200dpi that’s pretty low for an e-book type of thing that we’re doing, so usually it’s like 300 to 600 for a textbook because textbook has smallest text you know you see.
So we’re going to convert these to a searchable text or highlight able text you know, because we can highlight the image or anything okay, so I can’t really find anything on Linux that can do it the OCR process really well, but we can use the Firewind and use some Windows app that is actually nice and most of the people that post e-books online they use these programs too or similar to it, but this one is probably the most popular one.
This one is Abbey Fine Reader, this one is version 8 and pro-edition.
Now this one is not free but you know that cannot stop me anyways, so I believe the demo works of Fine too but I don’t know. I’ve got the folders in here basically, all you’ve got to do is loaded up step one, two, three, four is no brainier. So step one is to load that – in. I’m just going to do a few only, so we have checked four here and load those only okay, and as loading and we have our images here that we’re going to OCR in a minute and stuff too is basically the OCR process if you want to read all the pages and there we go we have you see in the background here, is highlighting all the words and it’s doing the OCR process.
It’s going to recognize the words and you know, convert it to text, so we can convert it to a PDF later on or HTML or Notepad or whatever the hell it is that we want to do so that’s what it is. Now, it’s not perfect but like I said the higher the dpi is the better it is, so if you’re using like a 600 dpi that’ll be like more accurate. I only had like a 200 dpi and all that you know, and I would say this is like a 90% as far as the rating are like in the 90 percentage—that accuracy. Now no other words they’ll recognize and that’s why I step three comes in.
Now if you want check the spellings if the sentences are correct or not, but usually I just kept number three I don’t really give a – and go to number four and save it. Save pages here, and I recommend using the PDF because that’s the best one, but it do has some other craft if you like. And also you select all pages because you want it in a single file not in multiple files and that’s pretty much it where you want to save it. If you want to save it to a desktop, you click save. Let’s do this thing and that’s pretty much it. It’s done, and you have a PDF here right?
You open this, so you have your PDF here you see our page that we just scanned, and like we can highlight the words too so the next one we can highlight the – words too, so you can actually search this. There’s a search option up here somewhere alright, and that’s great you know, you save money and if you have a Sony reader, load that – in and read it while you ‘re going there, and that’s why I’ve got the Sony reader mainly it reads comics but yeah, I can read text that I scanned also, so that’s a way to save money.
And if you’re in college you know, your report – that’s basically what a college doing is format the – and you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do to save money, so that’s it. For all my fellow college students out there, this is the way to maybe fight the system a little bit, and go try it if you don’t want to pay for books no more, or if you don’t like to carry books, invest in a Sony Reader or Kindle or whatever the e-book device that you want to use so that’s it.
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