Re: Ripping book to CD, legally
Andrea Landaker <[email protected]>
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> If this is true, are there any pay services that will do this for me? > EG, I mail them books and they mail back a CD w/ the "ripped" text? If you want a PDF or text file from an actual book, there are some places that will do that for you (or, if you feel destructive, you can take the binding off your books and run them through a page-feed scanner and OCR it yourself). "Planetary" or "overhead" scanners can scan books non-destructively. Searching google for "scanning books" comes up with a few places that will do this, but none of the sites quoted any prices . . . I can imagine that it might be expensive. The price might vary depending on whether you just want images of the pages, or whether you want full OCR. If the books you want are out of copyright, you could try Project Gutenberg and see if someone has already converted it: http://gutenberg.net/ -- Andrea Landaker http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/ _______________________________________________ NMLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.b9.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nmlug