: Re: Is there any software that facilitates scanning of a paper book into an ebook? I have some old sci-fi novels that are out of print and the rights owners are not creating them in ebook form.

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Here is a project that handles every step of the process.

There is an open source project called Homer that installs a suite of software to help with this including ScanTailor and tesseract-ocr. The final result is a searchable PDF. You can copy the text layer from the pdf (or the related html file created in the process) and paste it into an editor like Sigil to create an epub. Then, if you want mobi, convert using Calibre.

And there is a paper I wrote that explains the software in more detail.

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