CONTENTS
Introductory Notes
Overview of Scanning
How Scanning Books is Different from Other Scanning
Tips on Scanning and Optical Character Recognition
Tips on Editing Text
INTRODUCTORY NOTES
Many people ask, "How do I scan a book?". This article has been written to
answer this question. The truth of the matter is that scanning a book can be
extremely easy if you know what you are doing. Otherwise it will be a nightmare.
Scanning a book is very different from scanning other types of documents. The
tips in this article should be of great help.
This work was written to help people read using the technique called
Proportional Reading. In this approach the eyes never move. You can read up to
700 words per minute and still feel like you are being read aloud to. Text can
also be read out loud in real human voice at normal reading speed as it is
displayed one word at a time. In order to do this type of reading text must
first be in electronic form. The author spent three years developing an
understanding of how to scan books easily so any student could easily scan
course material or other reading material into e-text for Proportional Reading.
The material presented here is essentially chapters 7 and 8 of the Instruction
Manual for Proportional Reading.
Scanning really involves three parts:1) Making a picture of a page (scanning),
2) Using an Optical Character Recognition program to convert the picture into
typed text and 3) Cleaning up the text after this process. In actual practice,
scanning and OCR decisions are made before scanning starts.
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