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Re:Ask HN: I scanned an old paper book. How to turn it into ... by ThinkBeat on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @08:34AM (#33800450)
I do have the text OCRed for the most part. I do have to go through it all and look for mistakes. As it stands right now it is all in one PDF file. Each page is an image with text available "beneath" (?)

So you can highlight text and copy paste if you want.

but yes.

I am not sure I will ever have the time to truly make it perfect.

I will have to try and see how easy / hard it is.

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Re:Ask HN: I scanned an old paper book. How to turn it into ... by xeonmc on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @09:38AM (#33801328)
Do you still have the raw images as individual files? Or is the scan's most original form that monolithic PDF?
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