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Is there anything that can do this?


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I highly doubt it, but it's something I require.

I have a book containing alot (100's of pages) of text. I want to transfer that text into text on my PC without typing it all out as its not possible without sitting here doing it for months!

It would be perfect if I could scan a page and run it through an application which would recognise the text and automatically put it on my PC.

Is there anything out there?

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I highly doubt it, but it's something I require.

I have a book containing alot (100's of pages) of text. I want to transfer that text into text on my PC without typing it all out as its not possible without sitting here doing it for months!

It would be perfect if I could scan a page and run it through an application which would recognise the text and automatically put it on my PC.

Is there anything out there?

You want "Optical Character Recognition", or OCR for short. There are websites which do it, but it's unlikely to be convenient for hundreds of pages, or free for that matter.

Have a look here: http://alternativeto.net/software/freeocr/

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Have you seen if the book has an eBook version available? The cost of it would more than account for the time lost when scanning in the hundreds of pages.

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