Process+for+digitizing+books

Process for digitizing books as of 7-13-13

-put box on table. Put glass on top of box and overhanging box, but hold the glass down to the box with a weight. -move tree lamp nearby for good lighting -place phone on top of glass and use CamScanner app to take a picture of all of the pages (hold pages down at edge to make the page as flat as possible; also position each page so that only text from that page makes it into the image). Make sure that phone has power and doesn't run out of battery -convert document to pdf -transfer pdf to computer -keep a copy of the original document and use adobe acrobat professional to ocr all of the pages -split the document into sections using pdftk to extract certain pages (concatenate feature); see extract pages from pdf with pdftk -transfer whole original document, whole ocrd document, and extracted documents to hard drive for storage. Use an always connected computer to transfer a copy of the extracted sections to Dropbox for reading and annotation -when finished reading and annotating transfer files to hard drive for storage