JustinJJ Posted September 24, 2013 at 01:09 AM Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 at 01:09 AM Hi, I've got a whole bunch of Chinese textbooks that I probably won't be looking at for a while (if ever), but take up a lot of space and will be a pain when I move. Does anyone know of a way I can convert them into an ebook to keep for reference (PDF) and then throw out / give away the books? Preferably with an iPhone lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylee Posted September 24, 2013 at 01:55 AM Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 at 01:55 AM Perhaps use something like this https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/camscanner-free/id388627783?mt=8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinJJ Posted September 24, 2013 at 04:51 AM Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 at 04:51 AM Thx, that app looks very promising as it can scan to a PDF. What would be icing on the cake would be of there's a program I can use that can read the scanned characters so that I can save pages into a word document. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muyongshi Posted September 24, 2013 at 05:10 AM Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 at 05:10 AM I have *yet* to find a good OCR for Chinese characters. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tysond Posted September 24, 2013 at 05:51 AM Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 at 05:51 AM Pleco is good. But I want something on a PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted September 24, 2013 at 09:16 AM Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 at 09:16 AM OCR on Chinese characters is going to mean doing a lot of error checking, and generally textbooks don't work so well as they aren't just chunks of text - the tables, bullet points, illustrations, exercises, etc, could all cause problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruben von Zwack Posted September 24, 2013 at 09:41 AM Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 at 09:41 AM Would there be a good programme for PC, if I indeed do have the time to go over the text and error check character for character? I got a few new Chinese books and the amount of unknown characters is killing me. I'm old school and can do the radical search, stroke count, and what not. But with 20+ unknown characters per page it's too much even for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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