Scanning Reference books

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vanille
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Scanning Reference books

Post by vanille »

Can someone point me to the relevant tutorial or forum post for my issue? I have a lot of reference books to scan. I'm hoping to scan them and having links in the table of contents to the corresponding pages.

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Re: Scanning Reference books

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Vanille,

As in PDF internal links, or as html framework to image links, or as pure OCR, or as...

Frankly, there is not enough detail about your desires to even hazard a guess.

OUR, the Librum's, SOP is to make images, put them into a pdf, but not to do the OCR ('find text'). We take and make an ATOCI (Ascii Table Of Contents and Index). We have modified an ATOCI into html form to do links, but normally do not. This system is beneficial to us as it allows us to make the files small, in a standard format (pdf), and we can combine the indexes of the works (such as a set) into one master browser searchable file.

Is this something like you are considering?

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Re: Scanning Reference books

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If you are trying to have clickable links in the document (like Google books sometimes have), you would probably need full Acrobat and a lot of manual work.

I prefer just using the outline features of pdf and djvu file formats which mean that I don't need to browse to the TOC page.

I make my files with djvubind. It is easy enough to use that to do the indexing. I prefer to wait until after it is done and just use the tool called djvusmooth which allows me to browse through the pages and create bookmarks as I go and edit the outline as appropriate. Djvubind does a great job of running OCR and the binding the pages together. (I much prefer using it to making pdf files)

http://jwilk.net/software/djvusmooth
https://code.google.com/p/djvubind/

You can also make PDF files using PDFBeads. PDFtk has the ability to create bookmarks. I'm sure there is some other simpler tool out there. (If memory serves, there's a gui for pdftk somewhere that might have bookmarking features)
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