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?
Got any tips how to automatize that process? Because as it stands I need to switch between scanner and PC between every scan, which is a bit scuffed doing that 300 times
I tried Adobe’s Scan App and that kinda works, but text-recognition only really works on the right-hand pages. Plus it has all kinds of annoying limits, like a 25page cap, no exporting documents on free, etc
What scanner do you use? Does that scanner has some included software? My Canon scanner has a decent software
It’s an HP Envy 5530. It does have included software, but last time I used it it was dogshit bloatware though lol
Does the software for yours allow macros/automation itself?
my software is basic but decent, if the scanner isnt far from the pc you could look at bringing ur mouse to the scanner n saving yourself the trip to the pc every time
my software has a “1-click scan” system does your software have it?
in the end, it’s easier done than said, even if a bit long and boring