09-03-2014, 06:29 PM
Are you actually retyping it all?
If so, any possibility of scanning it into the computer and then using OCR (optical character recognition) to convert it to text?
Here's one of countless ways to do it:
http://www.wikihow.com/Turn-a-Scanned-Do...d-Document
I realize it's all upper case. But once it is converted to text, a few replaces can bring it very close to proper upper-lower case for sentences, etc.
My first computer only allowed caps, no lower case. I had to do a lot of conversions of all upper to upper-lower chars in my early stories. If you need help, I'd be willing to try.
This all presumes that you have a good enough copy of the book for clear scanning, and that you can separate the pages, or whatever is necessary to use the scanner.
--cranefly
If so, any possibility of scanning it into the computer and then using OCR (optical character recognition) to convert it to text?
Here's one of countless ways to do it:
http://www.wikihow.com/Turn-a-Scanned-Do...d-Document
I realize it's all upper case. But once it is converted to text, a few replaces can bring it very close to proper upper-lower case for sentences, etc.
My first computer only allowed caps, no lower case. I had to do a lot of conversions of all upper to upper-lower chars in my early stories. If you need help, I'd be willing to try.
This all presumes that you have a good enough copy of the book for clear scanning, and that you can separate the pages, or whatever is necessary to use the scanner.
--cranefly