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11. OCR software is pretty standard with all modern scanners
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 01:15 AM
Jan 2022

You might not have a scanner, but I'll bet you know someone that does. Their scanner very
likely came with some OCR software that will save you time in retyping it.

It's rarely perfect, but the fact that it was typed is a big plus.

If you really don't have any friends with scanners, if you can get images (pictures) of each
page you can upload them to any number of free OCR web sites. Just google 'free ocr' and
try and decide which one(s) to try

After you review the results (and maybe feed to a spell checker), I'd suggest also sending
the results to a text-to-speech program. I find that listening to text can catch errors and
typos that my visual system just doesn't see easily.

Good luck!

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