Re: turning a scan into a word document?

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Unless the author or his/her estate has renewed the copyright. That's not
going to be an easy thing to find out in some cases.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]




"Daiya Mitchell" <daiyaNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Anything published before 1919 (I think) in the US is in the public
domain.
Project Gutenberg is busy doing exactly this to make those books
available:
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

And yes, Confused, they use OCR, as CyberTaz mentioned. Your scanner may
have come with an OCR program, check Help or a forum for the scanner.

Search this group, someone posted a bunch of resource links for scanning
into Word at some point:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.word.docmanagement


On 9/8/06 11:35 AM, "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

I wouldn't because that is a violation of the author's copyright.
Translation: Illegal.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]




"Confused" <Confused@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How do you scan a book and convert it into a word document?



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