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Do you remember about when this was? I've been searching for the post on HN and can't find anything.
by jnbiche 12y ago
Do you remember about when this was? I've been searching for the post on HN and can't find anything.
- wxm 12y agoI'm afraid not. I've been searching as well and couldn't find it. I recall his process to be 1. secure the rights to the book (he knew the author personally/through family) 2. cut the book open and run it through a high resolution scanner 3. use imagemagick to preprocess images 4. run OCR on the pages and convert them to markdown 5. have a compiler convert his markdown and images to HTML EDIT: FOUND THE LINK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4974055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4974055
- jnbiche 12y agoThanks for tracking that down! Very interesting.