I am a book publisher and want to convert two of my 164 page books into either CDs or DVDs. My books were not created on word processors because they were printed more than 30 years ago, so I propose to scan each page. Ideally, I would like to transform my books onto CD or DVD so that can be viewed by flipping from one page to the next. I would like to include a table of contents with page numbers and an index, also with page numbers, so that readers of my books can find a specific item in a table of contents or index, then go directly to that page. For the sake of clarily - by books were not created from word-porcessed documents, so please do NOT think in those terms. Can anyone give me some guidance? I have called Adobe for help, but they want to charge be before telling me which of their programs will do this. I would prefer to create this on a PC using Windows XP. My customers will have either PCs, Macs or both. I have no idea if Acrobat will do this, so please recommend another program if you think it will work better. Thank you, email philhendry2 [at] gmail [dot] com
How do I convert a printed 164 page book into a pdf on CD or DVD?
2009-08-21 10:56:57
2009-08-22 13:38:06
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Phil,
Something you may already have considered; so, my apology if this is redundant.
Removal of the books' cover and the adhesive/stitching at the "spine".
Before scanning the paper you'll want to be sure there's no residue.
Don't want wee little chunkies at play with the mechanicals of the scanner .Be well...
Something you may already have considered; so, my apology if this is redundant.
Removal of the books' cover and the adhesive/stitching at the "spine".
Before scanning the paper you'll want to be sure there's no residue.
Don't want wee little chunkies at play with the mechanicals of the scanner .Be well...
You can include the Reader installer on your discs, but you have to ask Adobe for permission first (no fee, just so they know who's giving it away and why).
The scan, OCR and index stage is possible in Acrobat Standard, Pro and Pro Extended. I'd advise looking at Pro for your case, as it can also embed accessibility information into the PDF for readers using assisted technologies. See http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/matrix.php for a list of which version can do which task.