I have an out of print book which I would like to get converted into a word document. What is the best way of doing this?
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http://www.books2bytes.com/
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If you you want it done really quick, you could carefully remove the pages from the binding and load the pages into a scanner with an auto page feeder. From there you could create a multi page pdf or tiff file that you could OCR to create a Word file.
Sorry for recommending OCR, but I really don't see a way around it quickly. Why do you need the book in Word format?
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M$Google Books already has a lot of out of print books completely scanned in, with viewable pages and completely indexed. Do you really need it in a Word document? What is the name of the book?
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I also posted a solution which I am not aware of being available yet, on this Mahalo page: http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mmorpgs/how-can-we-get-runescape-or-some-other-mmorpg-to-be-more-educational-productive
u can download from http://www.fileguru.com/Macrobject-CHM-2-Word-2007-Professional/download
it is freeware.
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M$It looks interesting.
If you don't have Publisher what about using lateral thinking to solve this, eg;
Make a copy of the file so you can work on the copy and not the original.
Create a new blank document.
Keep the A4 paper size but change it from Portrait to Landscape.
Reformat the pages so they are in Newspaper Columns, two to a page.
From your copy, number each page manually into A5 book format.
From the copy of your document copy and paste each page into the newspaper columns document in the order that would create a book.
Print.
It would be laborious the first time, but once it is set up it may be easier to maintain it.
Good luck.
Mark
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Just to put some perspective on this
300 pages x 300 words (approx/ave) = 90,000 words
Typing at 60 words a minute it would take 25 hours of labour to type it up. At a full eight hours a day, that is a solid three days work (and some)
If it were me, I would do it. I type pretty quick and could probably do it in two thirds that time, but if you have to pay someone else that would be fairly costly.
Get someone to scan it for you, even that would be cheaper!
Me
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Good luck with this project. You may be able to get an office supplies company to help you with this for a fee!
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I'm UK based and wouldn't mind shipping to the states, so I got on the dog and bone but no response, getting a message about the number not being connected.
Can anyone confirm this? I wouldn't want to send my book to a company which doesn't anwser it's phone.
I Googled the phone #, leads here which is i guess their new full service company.
http://www.dclab.com/
Still the best suggestion I can think of for you. try calling them Monday. Contact infos:
http://www.dclab.com/contact_points.asp