I just ordered book 3 in The Obsidian Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey,and i know i waited a long time for someone to scan,and make a ebook out of it,but no one did.So what i'm wanting to know,is if anyone has a guide on how to scan books and make them into ebooks.So i can share the book cuz i know a few other people where looking for it.
Thanks allot!



Akkara

Try:

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http://ebooksdrop.com/ebooksite/index.html

the #ebooks faq website. There are sections on scanning, saving a scan, and proofing the files, all with good images to show you what they mean.

You should download the pack for proofers from:

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http://rapidshare.com/files/69737543/pck.rar.html

It has a lot of good utils that make scanning/proofing easier and it also has guides on how to best scan a book and OCR it. The best program I have found for OCR is ABBYY FineReader.

Also, I found that if you take a digital camera and take photos of each page at a high resolution then finereader doesn't have any trouble processing the text. All you need is a steady hand (or a tripod). Thats what I use when I have to scan a book as its a lot faster than scanning each page manually.

Looking forward to your scan.

- Sur

Nice info twice over....lol

But Im thinking of trying the photo way on a pdf...it might work you never know....otherwise i got to print it off, scan it and then etc.....
so the photo thing might be a better idea for me....thanks

Here's the third book in the trilogy - in html. Not sure how good it is, but he ya go.

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http://rapidshare.com/files/123525196/Lackey__Mercedes___Mallory__James_-_Obsidian_Trilogy_3_-_When_Darkness_Falls__.html.jpg_F__.rar

Hope this saves you some time - I know what a pain in the arse scanning can be.