From: Robert Viragh (rviragh_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2005 - 13:16:22 PST
well if you knew perl you'd just pipe a copy of the books through
perl -e 'while(<>){s/^.(..)*$/0$&/;($_=unpack([~#*],pack([#*],$_)))=~s'
-- yeah, yeah, that's a bit redundant, but at least it's
self-commenting.
Robert.
ps. obviously the unpack/pack solution leaves the pages creased, that's
why I say copies of the books - but it's superfast and cross-platform.
--- Owen Collins <collinso_at_wlu.edu> wrote:
> Is there a way that you can extract the text from a paperback book? I
> have a book I lost the source file for. It seems I can select the
> text
> on one page and copy it then paste it into a note. But repaeting it a
> hundred something times is going to get old.
>
> Thanks all,
>
> O.
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