Answers.Body: <p>If you do not plan to distribute the copies, there is a better solution to just re-type everything - especially if there is more than 1 book.</p>
  
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  <li>Scan book page by page.</li>
  <li>OCR the resulting images.</li>
  <li>Sister only makes correction where it is needed - or not at all, if mistakes can be "corrected" in the mind, while reading.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Depending on the choices for step 2, you need to slightly adjust step 1.</p>
  
  <p>There are even solution for the smartphones - take picture with smartphone, get text. I did a lot of scans for personal purposes, but I do not have much experience with OCR. Try a search on the net for first steps to OCR.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/43/is-there-any-software-that-facilitates-scanning-of-a-paper-book-into-an-ebook">Discussion - Convert paper book to ebook</a></p>
  
  <p>OCR = Optical Character Recognition</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Some scanners do the OCR for you (or, rather, they come with the OCR sw). So you just scan and have a nice searchable PDF directly.
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Answers.Text: True. However, we cannot narrow down solutions until we hear from our friend in need.
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Answers.Text: Depending on luck, the scanner and the software may be worth the money, or not.
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Body: <p>I have several books that I love reading but because of my asthma I would need them in digital format. The paper back is too old and would affect me. I tried to find one of them in digital format but found the author has passed and there is no digital format in existence. </p>
  
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Title: How can I turn my hardcover book into a digital copy?
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ThreadText: # How can I turn my hardcover book into a digital copy?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-12-31)
  
  I have several books that I love reading but because of my asthma I would need them in digital format. The paper back is too old and would affect me. I tried to find one of them in digital format but found the author has passed and there is no digital format in existence.
  
  **Tags:** kindle, epub, ebook-readers
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-02-04. Score: 1
  
  If you do not plan to distribute the copies, there is a better solution to just re-type everything - especially if there is more than 1 book.
  
  1. Scan book page by page.
  2. OCR the resulting images.
  3. Sister only makes correction where it is needed - or not at all, if mistakes can be "corrected" in the mind, while reading.
  
  Depending on the choices for step 2, you need to slightly adjust step 1.
  
  There are even solution for the smartphones - take picture with smartphone, get text. I did a lot of scans for personal purposes, but I do not have much experience with OCR. Try a search on the net for first steps to OCR.
  
  [Discussion - Convert paper book to ebook](https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/43/is-there-any-software-that-facilitates-scanning-of-a-paper-book-into-an-ebook)
  
  OCR = Optical Character Recognition
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: Some scanners do the OCR for you (or, rather, they come with the OCR sw). So you just scan and have a nice searchable PDF directly.  
  > **username_1**: True. However, we cannot narrow down solutions until we hear from our friend in need.  
  > **username_1**: Depending on luck, the scanner and the software may be worth the money, or not.  
  
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