Help:Document transcoding

This is a work in progress, used to build an online resource for tools and tips in document transcoding.

Step 1, getting Finereader prepared

 * English; French; German
 * façade
 * B&W
 * Tools - Options - Scan/Open - Do not read and analyze acquired page images
 * Tools - Options - Read - Thorough Reading
 * Tools - Options - Save - PDF - Use Mixed Raster Content, Enable Tagged PDF, Best Quality
 * FB2/EPUB - Title, Author, Best Quality

Step 4, Editing
EPUB
 * Clean Finereader output
 * Side by side comparison
 * Fix Footnotes first
 * Add blockquotes
 * Keep an eye out for indentation on new pages
 * Catch hyphenation (if plenty of time, do ([a-zA-Z])-([a-zA-Z])
 * Index Trick

Tools and links

 * ABBYY FineReader (OCR software)
 * Sigil (The best EPUB editor)
 * Unicode Character Search
 * ScriptPNG (for PNG image compression)
 * ImageMagick (for image conversion)
 * DIY Book Scanner


 * Additional info
 * "epub formatting "don'ts"