Comrades, I just got an old 80s theory book from an older comrade as a gift and you’re lucky to even find a used print-version anywhere, let alone a pdf version. Even the title of the book itself yields a handful of results at most. So I thought: This shit needs to be digitized.
Thing is, I don’t have it in me to pull this thing apart just to scan it. Scanning via phone is suboptimal in my experience and doesn’t yield the best results to read on a kindle/pdf-reader. I’d be willing to just retype the thing, but at 300 pages that’s quite the workload too.
Is there a good way to do this that’s not super out there, expensive or time consuming?
That’s a good tip. Even google lens and afaik the default Apple galery app can convert images to text. Just a bit tedious doing all copy/pasting on a smartphone, but that could be the easiest way. Just taking a picture of every page, converting it to text and then formating it as pdf. Should be easy on the book itself too.