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Creddit, to piracy in it sure beats having to buy it, but seriously come on...

There are a bunch of online tools that are free and let you upload a PDF to have it go through OCR.

Just Google “Free PDF OCR” and click through all the ads to upload, then give them a temporary email address to get a download link to the finished product.

Hot tip: There are free temporary email address sites too, if you need one to avoid getting on their ad lists.

Agent641,

If you have a jpg or png file, you can upload it to Google drive, then right click and open in Google docs, and it will OCR the text for you.

Anamnesis, to piracy in it sure beats having to buy it, but seriously come on...

Simple: pirate adobe acrobat and ocr them yourself.

Lemongrab,
@Lemongrab@lemmy.one avatar

Or OCRMyPDF github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF

empireOfLove2,
@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I might just do that and reupload the OCR’d copy. I already have 3 or 4 books that I’ve saved out to cut the binding off of and scan in- gonna need OCR for that too.

In my free time, of course. University waits for no student…

raven, to piracy in it sure beats having to buy it, but seriously come on...

I hope this sentiment never stops someone from uploading a textbook without OCR. Once it’s scanned it can always be OCRed at a later time.

OgdenTO, to piracy in it sure beats having to buy it, but seriously come on...

Use the index

flipflop97, (edited ) to piracy in it sure beats having to buy it, but seriously come on...
@flipflop97@feddit.nl avatar

You can do it yourself:

ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io

jlow,

There are so many:

stirlingtools.comdocs.paperless-ngx.comwww.openpaper.work/en/

Moonrise2473, (edited ) to piracy in it sure beats having to buy it, but seriously come on...

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

combat_brandonism, to piracy in it sure beats having to buy it, but seriously come on...

downbear

RobotToaster,

Is this some kind of kink symbol?

spacecowboy,

It’s a super easy way to add more people to your block list.

silent_water, (edited )
@silent_water@hexbear.net avatar

no, we don’t have downvotes on hexbear and this is what they looked like when we did. it means bad post.

unperson, (edited ) to piracy in it sure beats having to buy it, but seriously come on...

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

library.bz/main/upload/ anonymous username genesis password upload

DontNoodles, to piracy in it sure beats having to buy it, but seriously come on...

Sites like Anna’s library should permit users to flag books without OCR and permit users to submit OCR version of the books.

lanolinoil, to piracy in it sure beats having to buy it, but seriously come on...
@lanolinoil@lemmy.world avatar

projectnaptha.com

nameisnotimportant,
@nameisnotimportant@lemmy.ml avatar

Very impressive! That’s a bummer that you need Chrome to make it happen though :/

lanolinoil,
@lanolinoil@lemmy.world avatar

It will still work on PDFs loaded in Chrome to be fair though.

Kingofthezyx, to piracy in it sure beats having to buy it, but seriously come on...

Bitch you can’t ctrl-F or click to chapter in an actual book either.

empireOfLove2,
@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I know, that’s my point! PDF’s are inherently superior BECAUSE you can usually CTRL-F them.

JackbyDev,

Wait until OP hears about the Index at the back of the book.

anarchy79, to privacy in This is how I KNOW it works as intended
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for caring about my privacy, CNN, sorry I couldn’t be more helpful in facilitating your solid privacy measures.

ceenote,

You can be more helpful, though.

Go to a different website.

littlebluespark,
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

If it were working “as intended”, the site wouldn’t know you’re there. 🤌🏼

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.

dan1101,

“You can totally trust us bro”

sjmulder, to privacy in This is how I KNOW it works as intended

The world turned upside dooooowwwwn 🎵

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll counter with

I don’t want to set the world on fire

moreeni, to privacy in This is how I KNOW it works as intended

Thanks to the CNN overlords for caring about privacy. Blatant liars.

SnotFlickerman, to privacy in This is how I KNOW it works as intended
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Welcome to the Corporate Internet.

Get ready to play by Their Rules on Their Services.

Good thing a lot of them are useless fucking Dinosaurs like CNN that need to die anyway.

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

Not today.

Not.

Today.

astraeus,
@astraeus@programming.dev avatar

That’s why places like Lemmy and Mastodon are nice, even if big corpo buys up some instances, there’s still the option to just start free ones elsewhere.

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