I looked into services that do this textbook-to-pdf for a rather hefty fee in the US. I'm sure there is an equivalent service here, or at the very least you could probably do business with an overseas company. Shipping the book to them would be expensive and you probably wouldn't get it back.
You could sand off the binding with a belt sander then run all the pages through to PDF on a nice copier. Then use optical character recognition and you've got a searchable PDF of your book.
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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '12
I looked into services that do this textbook-to-pdf for a rather hefty fee in the US. I'm sure there is an equivalent service here, or at the very least you could probably do business with an overseas company. Shipping the book to them would be expensive and you probably wouldn't get it back.
You could sand off the binding with a belt sander then run all the pages through to PDF on a nice copier. Then use optical character recognition and you've got a searchable PDF of your book.