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Book Scanning: Step 3, Use ABBYY for OCR to produce an eBook

Monday, October 1st, 2012

In September, I posted about how to pre-process the captured content to maximize successful optical character recognition (OCR) . In this post, we’ll use ABBYY FineReader for optical character recognition (OCR) to produce an eBook.

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Book Scanning: Step 2, Pre-process the captured content using Scan Tailor

Saturday, September 1st, 2012

In July, I posted about how to capture the physical book content using a camera. We’ll go over how to pre-process the captured content to maximize successful optical character recognition (OCR).

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Book Scanning: Step 1, Capture the book content

Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

Tired of paying for Kindle ebooks? Here’s how you can make your own!

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What is the difference between rain and showers?

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Since moving to the Seattle area, rain and showers have become a bigger part of my life. Rain, rain showers, showers, isolated showers, scattered showers, snow showers, drizzle… but what the heck is the difference?

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How to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius?

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

Converting Fahrenheit to Celsius doesn’t require a calculator. Here are some easy-to-remember temperatures if you’re accustomed to Fahrenheit temperatures…

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When to use “a” or “an”

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

A historic or an historic?  A university or an university?  A MBA or an MBA?  A user or an user?  If there’s even a little doubt about which is correct, there is a simple rule to clear up the confusion.

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Official launch of Daily Morn

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Daily Morn is online!  It’s been many months in the making…  Many thanks to Joshua Corbin, Jeremiah Nisbet and Kevin Dwyer.  Getting this web site up-and-running would not have been possible without their great suggestions and endless experience.

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