Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get a PDF via Email

Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by davidw on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:03PM (#2901067)

Ideally you'd get something besides a PDF, which is a pain in the neck to turn into a 'real' eBook.

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Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by caryme on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:42PM (#2901234)

I'll probably OCR the PDF and see where I can go from there. It's a big jump start that I couldn't have easily done on my own.

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Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by ScottBurson on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:45PM (#2901247)

The 1DollarScan website says they do the OCR for you. They also claim that the result is searchable, which of course it couldn't be if they didn't OCR it.

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Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by caryme on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:50PM (#2901272)

I may still want to OCR it myself for more control over the process (particularly in identifying and correcting OCR errors). In my experience, there's a difference in expectation of quality between OCR to make a PDF searchable and OCR to generate a standalone text file.

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Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by CamperBob on Thursday August 18, 2011 @07:58PM (#2901631)

Why is that? .PDF isn't proprietary enough?

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Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by davidw on Friday August 19, 2011 @04:16AM (#2902647)

PDF is really a display format, whereas epub/mobi are more HTMLish in that they are not quite so specific in how they want things displayed, and thus can be flowed into different screen sizes pretty easily.

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Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by burgerbrain on Thursday August 18, 2011 @11:30PM (#2902117)

PDF is not proprietary.

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