Comrades, I just got an old 80s theory book from an older comrade as a gift and you’re lucky to even find a used print-version anywhere, let alone a pdf version. Even the title of the book itself yields a handful of results at most. So I thought: This shit needs to be digitized.

Thing is, I don’t have it in me to pull this thing apart just to scan it. Scanning via phone is suboptimal in my experience and doesn’t yield the best results to read on a kindle/pdf-reader. I’d be willing to just retype the thing, but at 300 pages that’s quite the workload too.

Is there a good way to do this that’s not super out there, expensive or time consuming?

  • @KommandoGZD@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    61 year ago

    I actually have a 2-in-1 printer with flatbed and the book is small enough to scan 2 pages at once. Unfortunately I can’t close the lid like at all because of the book and that makes at least half the pages mostly blurry

    • diegeticscream[all]🔻
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      51 year ago

      Can you put some poster board or something like that behind the book as you scan it? That might be similar to closing it.

      • @redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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        21 year ago

        Can also lay white A4 paper in an L shape around the book, directly on the glass. So long as the book is held steady, it should come out clean.