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Ask HN: I scanned an old paper book. How to turn it into an eBook?
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Hi, I have scanned a couple of books written by an ancestor. He was not famous, and I doubt too many people are interested but I wanted to give the books a new digital life. I think the enormous back catalog of things that have been published but then disappeared is sad. Anyways I have a few hundred pdf files. They have an image of the page and the OCR text. The text will have to be edited by hand I think. Its not in English. I was wondering if anyone knew of scripts or applications that can take that as an input, do some decent formatting and typesetting and spit out a couple of different formats of eBooks at the other end. There are photos and illustrations on some pages. I am hoping to keep them. The images are ok but given the curvature of the page, and other factors the images are not I feel ready to be used. I could try to cut and paste it all into Word There is also an extensive cross reference and table of contents that I have no idea how to deal with. I presume I will do it by hand but it would take a long time. Anyways if you have any tips for me on how to take the raw files and make them into pretty, easy to read eBooks that would be fabulous.