not being able to ctrl-F a textbook or have click-to-chapter links sure makes studying harder these days… and any scanning software worth it’s salt will at least do the bare minimum OCR automatically…
- Moonrise2473 ( @Moonrise2473@feddit.it ) English84•8 months ago
I much prefer doing ocr by myself if really needed, than getting an half assed “book” full of typos and broken tables just because someone did an automated OCR but didn’t have the 5-6 hours required to manually edit to make it decent
Already be thankful that someone took the time to flip page by page in their scanner manually and upload it somewhere
- Philip Goto ( @flipflop97@feddit.nl ) English50•8 months ago
You can do it yourself:
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) English3•8 months ago
- Kingofthezyx ( @Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee ) English47•8 months ago
Bitch you can’t ctrl-F or click to chapter in an actual book either.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English37•8 months ago
Wait until OP hears about the Index at the back of the book.
I know, that’s my point! PDF’s are inherently superior BECAUSE you can usually CTRL-F them.
- Gork ( @Gork@lemm.ee ) English28•8 months ago
OCR’ing a book before uploading saves so much hours on the user end of things. I wish it were done more so I don’t have to leave my computer running overnight to batch OCR stuff.
- antonim ( @antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English27•8 months ago
By the time you finished making this snarky meme, you could’ve set up a program to OCR a book yourself.
- 5714 ( @5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•8 months ago
‘A’ yes, but the more scan pix you get, the annoyter you get
- DontNoodles ( @DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.de ) English24•8 months ago
Sites like Anna’s library should permit users to flag books without OCR and permit users to submit OCR version of the books.