Repeat this 100 times if the book has 200 pages. Wait at least 8 seconds (depending on your setting: color and DPI) for it to finish The most troublesome part is, you have to:Ĥ. It will take a long time cleaning it up and potentially messing up the OCR process. First, if your source material is a book, you will almost miss the parts along the spine. The first scanner I bought was the bed scanner CanoScan LiDE 110. Although you may start the selection process while typing: choosing what’s important enough to be typed and imported, it’s a lot more efficient doing so after having the whole source. Switching between selecting and typing is just not efficient enough. Not only is this exhausting, you’re also prone to errors and mistakes. Even if you can type 100 words per minute, you can’t possibly sustain this speed throughout. You have 3 options: typing, scanner and camera. If you have an old book that doesn’t have a digital version, or your professor hands out lecture slides without uploading them online, you need to manually convert them into digital formats. Unfortunately, not everything is available digitally. eBooks are available in various formats Choose EPUB or MOBI as they don’t need to be OCR and ready to be imported immediately. It’s very boring and time-consuming believe me, I tried.ĭepending on your learning materials, most reference books and research papers are available only in PDF format. Don’t DIY unless you absolutely have no choice. If you don’t have access to those, there are almost guaranteed paid or free digital formats online. Almost any university library has various subscriptions with giant collections of eBooks, research papers, reference books etc. Start with your local public library or school library. It’s absolutely unnecessary to scan it on your own and then OCR it when a digital format is available. More and more learning materials are available in digital formats. Before you attempt to scan or ocr anything, look for available digital sources This article is about how I do so for SuperMemo/Anki. Over the years, I’ve learned various tools and ways to streamline and automate these processes. In some cases, you need to digitize your learning materials, i.e., turning your source materials into a digital format. Relying on any SRS for memorizing/learning means needing digital sources. Having a digital source is even more important if you’re using Incremental Reading in SuperMemo or Anki. I have no affiliation with any product or software mentioned.
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