I'd be willing to do OCR for a couple of books, if anyone has one or two they really really want the searchable text from.
Could either convert to searchable PDF or Word (or both); converting to other ebook formats would take more substantial time & effort. (And is possible, but would need to be negotiated around my schedule.) It looks like they're nice high-res scans (600dpi) and would OCR easily.
Searchable PDF (hidden, corrected text under the scanned image, copy/pastable but likely with some formatting problems) is easy and, in small batches, fun for me. Word docs with most of the formatting removed (like, getting rid of the columns; putting all the footnotes at the end; skipping the index) is likewise easy and fun. Trying to match the original formatting is less fun and takes more time; I'm available for that but not willing to offer it to the general public for free.
Whole books take time. A single chapter probably takes an hour or so (depending on how much text is involved); a single page is a matter of minutes. (Erm. Not counting download time. I don't have the mega-fast DSL.) I'm happy to help people out with conversion if they want/need access to the text.
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Could either convert to searchable PDF or Word (or both); converting to other ebook formats would take more substantial time & effort. (And is possible, but would need to be negotiated around my schedule.) It looks like they're nice high-res scans (600dpi) and would OCR easily.
Searchable PDF (hidden, corrected text under the scanned image, copy/pastable but likely with some formatting problems) is easy and, in small batches, fun for me. Word docs with most of the formatting removed (like, getting rid of the columns; putting all the footnotes at the end; skipping the index) is likewise easy and fun. Trying to match the original formatting is less fun and takes more time; I'm available for that but not willing to offer it to the general public for free.
Whole books take time. A single chapter probably takes an hour or so (depending on how much text is involved); a single page is a matter of minutes. (Erm. Not counting download time. I don't have the mega-fast DSL.) I'm happy to help people out with conversion if they want/need access to the text.