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| Speakeasy Senior Member Canada Joined 4049 days ago 507 posts - 1098 votes  Studies: German | Message 1 of 7 21 November 2015 at 7:08pm | IP Logged |
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Bonjour mes ami(e)s,
I have a copy of the Assimil course "La pratique du Néerlandais", which is their advanced/second-stage course for learning Dutch from a French base. Regrettably, this course is out-of-print and many people report extreme difficulty in locating used copies. I would like to scan my copy for my (cough, cough) personal use; however, I do not wish to physically disassemble the book. So, ... I have a fairly good HP multi-purpose printer/scanner. The Assimil course book is almost 500 pages in length and, unfortunately, the book does not lie flat on the scanner surface. Also, since the scanner controls permit the creation and saving of only one document at time, it seems to me that I have to "nurse" this process over an extended period, unless, of course, there is some method for creating several scanned documents (PDF) and recombining them afterwards. Does anyone have any "tricks" that they can share with me so that I might complete this (cough, cough) "personal" project? Merci à l'avance! Edited by Speakeasy on 21 November 2015 at 8:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5562 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2 of 7 21 November 2015 at 8:33pm | IP Logged |
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You can buy an old copy of the 'full' Adobe Acrobat 6 Standard on Amazon for about $7 -
this allows you to assemble the pdfs into one file Better be quick though - one left apparently. Acrobat 7 is $29 http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Acrobat-6-0-Standard-VERSION/dp/ B00008ZGRY/ref=sr_1_1? ie=UTF8&qid=1448134347&sr=8-1&keywords=Adobe+Acrobat+6 Edited by Elexi on 21 November 2015 at 8:33pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6700 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 7 21 November 2015 at 8:36pm | IP Logged |
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Photograph it. If you have a good camera and the text remains legible then you can add the individual photos to a pdf or a powerpoint file. You may however have to put the camera on some kind of stand in order to get photos of sufficient quality.
PS: Flexi knew something I didn't know. But my answer is still valid in those cases where you simply can't find a certain book in any kind of digitalized form. Edited by Iversen on 21 November 2015 at 8:41pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6436 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 4 of 7 21 November 2015 at 11:00pm | IP Logged |
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You can use imagemagick, which is free, if you can use a command line, ideally by converting to PNG and just back to PDF at the end. http://superuser.com/questions/54041/how-to-merge-pdfs-using -imagemagick-resolution-problem
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| aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5538 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese | Message 5 of 7 22 November 2015 at 2:01am | IP Logged |
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Find a library with a book scanner. Not that that's exactly easy but they aren't terribly unusual at
universities. Otherwise I'm in agreement with the "photograph it" idea. There are also a handful of smartphone apps that have OCR capabilities and are designed for photographing and processing text. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Speakeasy Senior Member Canada Joined 4049 days ago 507 posts - 1098 votes Studies: German | Message 6 of 7 23 November 2015 at 11:15pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you, one and all, for your suggestions.
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| luhmann Senior Member Brazil Joined 5330 days ago 156 posts - 271 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: Mandarin, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Persian, Arabic (classical) | Message 7 of 7 27 November 2015 at 1:42am | IP Logged |
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try pdfsam
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