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A comment on Ask HN: I scanned an old paper book. How to turn it into an eBook?.

Re:Ask HN: I scanned an old paper book. How to turn it into ... by mooreds on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @09:09AM (#33800956)
I'd suggest submitting it to Project Gutenberg, if it passes copyright muster. They have almost 70k free ebooks they make available in a variety of formats.

https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/collection_development.html

Many years ago I had free time, access to a scanner and a book that was out of copyright and submitted to PG. So it's been a while, but as I recall you can submit the OCR files and volunteers help proofread the books.

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Re:Ask HN: I scanned an old paper book. How to turn it into ... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @09:46AM (#33801431)
https://www.pgdp.net/ is the distributed proofreading app.
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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 @03:02PM (#33806784)
cool thanks
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