Congrats! Pirate all your textbooks! If they say you need a physical copy, get a similarly-sized book and print out a fake cover to put over it! If you can afford to buy the book, upload a PDF of it for all your classmates! :elmofire:
I guess that depends on the hardware available to you. Any printer with a built-in scanner should be able to get an image clear enough for text recognition. I haven't been to a library in a minute, but they almost always have copy machines, and I would expect that nowadays most of them are hooked up to a computer to scan images into digital copies, instead of just printing them out.
Text recognition software is really good nowadays, it will work on almost any scanned image. I haven't done this in a while, so I can't recommend any specific sites or programs where you can upload PDFs that are text searchable, but I know they're out there.
ha, for me, we need digital because we use it for our online homework shit... and you can't get the digital without buying the physical copy
another piece of gold is that I bought a digital copy of a book this semester (one of the few books that would allow only digital) and instead of emailing me a code I had to pay shipping and wait 10 days to get a card with the code written on it shipped to me. this, from the official book store of a school with the word "tech," "technology," or similar written somewhere in its full name.
Congrats! Pirate all your textbooks! If they say you need a physical copy, get a similarly-sized book and print out a fake cover to put over it! If you can afford to buy the book, upload a PDF of it for all your classmates! :elmofire:
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I'll give you plenty of tips as soon as you explain what crisp ocr means
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I guess that depends on the hardware available to you. Any printer with a built-in scanner should be able to get an image clear enough for text recognition. I haven't been to a library in a minute, but they almost always have copy machines, and I would expect that nowadays most of them are hooked up to a computer to scan images into digital copies, instead of just printing them out.
Text recognition software is really good nowadays, it will work on almost any scanned image. I haven't done this in a while, so I can't recommend any specific sites or programs where you can upload PDFs that are text searchable, but I know they're out there.
I might be able to hook you up if you can tell me specific books you need. No promises, though
Your school should be able to get a good number of textbooks in ebook form through their library. If not, find a friend at a larger institution.
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ha, for me, we need digital because we use it for our online homework shit... and you can't get the digital without buying the physical copy
another piece of gold is that I bought a digital copy of a book this semester (one of the few books that would allow only digital) and instead of emailing me a code I had to pay shipping and wait 10 days to get a card with the code written on it shipped to me. this, from the official book store of a school with the word "tech," "technology," or similar written somewhere in its full name.
it's the biggest scam there is