http://www.scribd.com/people/view/632831-deathofgrass This a feed for documents on Scribd written by deathofgrass 30 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:51:28 GMT Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:51:28 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2589070/how-to-scan-books-to-text-files notes on book scanning. These notes explain my experiences of trying to convert an out-of-print book from a paper edition to a digital file. I used a normal flat bed scanner, an old version of Photoshop, and Google's free character recognition software called Tesseract. I also used an application called TXTcollector to merge the many text files that Tesseract creates, Microsoft Word for the spell checking and editing, and Microsoft Excel to help me make some batch files. Having run a few tests, the experience below shows the best way I could find to get accurate character recognition from Tess Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:51:28 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2589070/how-to-scan-books-to-text-files http://www.scribd.com/doc/2586284/The-Death-of-Grass-by-John-Christopher The Death of Grass John Christopher First published by MICHAEL JOSEPH LTD 26 Bloomsbury Street London, W.C.l 1956 Set and printed in Great Britain by Unwin Brothers Ltd. at the Gresham Press, Woking, in Times type, ten point leaded On Paper made by Henry Bruce at Currie, Midlothian, and bound by James Burn at Esher Prodrome As sometimes happens, death healed a family breach. When Hilda Custance was widowed in the early summer of 1933, she wrote, for the first time since her marriage thirteen years before, to her father. Their moods touched-hers of longing for the hills of Westmorland after the Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:21:51 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2586284/The-Death-of-Grass-by-John-Christopher