I know there are places in BKK that will copy a book for you, then bind the pages. What I'm wondering is, does anyone know of a service that will scan every page of a paper book and put it in digital form, like a PDF, or at least 1 file per page?

 

Good question, I'd also be interested in converting a couple of paper books to e-books 

I know somebody who can do it for you but he is in Kochi, Kerala, India. Will that do? 

42 minutes ago, lamyai3 said:

Good question, I'd also be interested in converting a couple of paper books to e-books 

On this other thread I started a few days before this one, "tonray" wrote, 

"Any copy shop will have a scanner connected PC. All BE Trend stores in the malls will have one. but likely much better price around a University."

 

I've been meaning to find one of these "BE Trend" shops, or go to a uni to see if I can, in fact, scan to a file and put it on my flash drive.

 

If you go looking and find a place where you can do it, let me know. ;-)

 

 

 

Just give me the name of the book, I will source it for you and send you a epub fle or a mob file, will that do?

If the title is well known, then try for it on issuu.com

Just now, tifino said:

If the title is well known, then try for it on issuu.com

Yeah. 

40 minutes ago, Annu Nair said:

Just give me the name of the book, I will source it for you and send you a epub fle or a mob file, will that do?

The books I mainly want to digitize are proprietary text books of a small business. Only paying customers of this business are allowed to purchase them. Obviously they'd prefer customers *not* digitize them, since they could then be easily shared over the internet for free. However, the books are rather large and it would be much more convenient for me to have them in (for example), an iPad. I would not share these digital files with anyone. And I don't want to give the books to anyone outside of Bangkok to digitize them. :-)

1 hour ago, OliverKlozerof said:

The books I mainly want to digitize are proprietary text books of a small business. Only paying customers of this business are allowed to purchase them. Obviously they'd prefer customers *not* digitize them, since they could then be easily shared over the internet for free. However, the books are rather large and it would be much more convenient for me to have them in (for example), an iPad. I would not share these digital files with anyone. And I don't want to give the books to anyone outside of Bangkok to digitize them. :-)

How can you be contacted in BKK?

There are APPs that may suit your needs.

 

Optical character recognition or OCR can be loaded on your phone and you take a photo of the page you want to copy, open the APP and you'll be able to copy and paste the script from the photo - it does require some editing for spaces & paragraphs etc

 

Issuu as mentioned has some features for a paid subscription that could also be beneficial.

Once the books are digitised , they will go up on the internet & get torrented all over the world. That's if the books aren't allready all over the net and on torrent sites.

46 minutes ago, Luckysilk said:

There are APPs that may suit your needs.

 

Optical character recognition or OCR can be loaded on your phone and you take a photo of the page you want to copy, open the APP and you'll be able to copy and paste the script from the photo - it does require some editing for spaces & paragraphs etc

 

Issuu as mentioned has some features for a paid subscription that could also be beneficial.

Hardly a solution because what the guy is looking for is a machine into which you can put his damned book and it produces voila a pdf for him.

46 minutes ago, Annu Nair said:

Hardly a solution because what the guy is looking for is a machine into which you can put his damned book and it produces voila a pdf for him.

It's a DYI option and it works as I've done it countless times.

 

 

Stop trolling

22 minutes ago, Luckysilk said:

It's a DYI option and it works as I've done it countless times.

 

 

Stop trolling

I wont stop trolling because I am not. <deleted> off.

23 minutes ago, Luckysilk said:

It's a DYI option and it works as I've done it countless times.

 

 

Stop trolling

What is DYI? Do you mean DIY? You recommending this method if he has 2000 pages in his damned book?

4 minutes ago, Annu Nair said:

What is DYI? Do you mean DIY? You recommending this method if he has 2000 pages in his damned book?

Welcome to my ignore list 

Can you read?

Just now, Annu Nair said:

Can you read?

Read the abusive PM you sent ? I sure can 

 

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Just now, Luckysilk said:

Read the abusive PM you sent ? I sure can 

 

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I dont think you do.

4 hours ago, Luckysilk said:

Welcome to my ignore list 

I agree with you, Luckysilk. Ignored.