How this text was electrified...

I used a UMAX Vista S6 scanner to scan the book in. Lineart scans with this scanner are very fast, which is very convenient when scanning in nearly 400 pages. I used OmniPage Pro to recognize the text in batches of a chapter or two at a time.

I saved the recognized text in a text file with one line per paragraph, and then moved it to my Linux machine, where I used the jed editor (with a set of macros which I wrote) to add HTML markup.

As a Linux zealot, I would rather do the whole job under Linux, because I dislike having Windows 95 crash on me approximately every 45 minutes, as it did while I scanned this book. To that end, I have written a Linux driver for the UMAX line of scanners. I also hope that eventually I'll be able to run OmniPage Pro under Linux as well.



CCEL
This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library
at Calvin College. Last updated on May 27, 1999.
Contacting the CCEL.
Calvin seal: My heart I offer you O Lord, promptly and sincerely