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it is fully typed just need to be digitized
Have you considered scanning it and running OCR over it, then doing corrections?
Yeah that is probably what I will do I hear phone apps can do that now.
If you have access to a feed scanner, you could place the whole book in the feeder and get the whole thing scanned quick. Then you could find a FOSS utility that can scan your PDF and add or output the OCR text for you. You should check your public library. I know mine has a large multifunction copier that can scan a large document onto a thumb drive, for example.
I might not even have access to a bed soon man
Fair point. Listen, if you can get the whole thing scanned somehow, I'll take a crack at doing OCR on it for you to cut down on time.
might take you up on that.
I recently used a tool to convert PDF documentation of a Database Schema full of tables into a Mark-Down format, and it came out pretty good, I bet that tool (whose name I forget now) could handle this document. Just hit me up on Matrix or in the DMs.