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Is there a way to transfer pages from a physical book to your computer?

Asked by tan253 (2958points) September 2nd, 2016

Hi Fluther! Hard to describe.
I’ve just bought 5 books with scripts in them for actors.
I’d like to somehow put those scripts onto my computer so I can print them up for actors to read, outside of manually typing in each script is there a way I can do it from the book?

Re: scan the page and then re-edit ?
Anyone know?
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tan253's avatar

I’m on a MAC and that is WAY complicated! ;)

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

You need Optical Character Reader scanning capability.

By the way, scanning printed books violates the copyright.

tan253's avatar

Oh it does???
Oh crap I didn’t know that. – thank you.

tan253's avatar

Maybe I will delete my question….. ha ha x

ragingloli's avatar

our teachers copied pages from books all the time.
ignore the copyright.

cookieman's avatar

You need a batch scanner with OCR (optical character recognition).

This may do the trick.

hrairoo's avatar

You don’t really need a scanner with OCR built in. You just need an app.

Use Image Capture (built into macOS) or any other scanning app to capture scanned images of your pages. Then use something like PDFpen or ABBYY FineReader to detect and add a text layer to the images. Easy peasy. ^_^

Cruiser's avatar

Though I have never done it, It might be easier to pay for or find an “E” Kindle version of the book and then just copy and past the text. My library offers thousands of books online for free.

tan253's avatar

Thanks guys! Will see what works…. x

janbb's avatar

How about just photocopying them? Most libraries have cheap photocopiers.

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