I intend to convert a physical book into a ebook for iPhone. I am interested in finding out what are the steps that I need to do in order to do this. Need some guidance as well as suggestions.
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I intend to convert a physical book into a ebook for iPhone. I am interested in finding out what are the steps that I need to do in order to do this. Need some guidance as well as suggestions.
1) If you are intending on distributing this book in any way (using for anything besides your own personal use), you will need to obtain copyrights to the material (unless you wrote it).
2) Get images of all the pages onto a computer by scanning it or using a digital camera.
3) Use an OCR program to generate text. Here is a list.
4) Use a page layout, word processing, or book writing program to compile the text into a document. These include Pages from iWork (word processing and page layout), iBook Author, Word from Microsoft Office (word processing), Adobe Illustrator (page layout, comes with Adobe Creative Suite), and numerous others. Open Office might be good enough.
5) Export the document as a PDF or ePub. iPhones and iPads also recognize Kindle and B&N eBook formats.