I was speaking with Eric Mack and he mentioned his search for a program which kept track of what you highlighted. It didn’t dawn on me until then that Acrobat may be an answer (though not ideal).

If you’ve used Adobe Acrobat 7.0 before, you likely know that you can mark-up your PDF files by [...]

I just finished scanning my first textbook for this semester and I thought I’d share a few things I came across.

First, I’m now convinced the method I outlined in the Acrobat article is a great way to scan books. Not only did I get great quality scans, but it was super easy and I now [...]

After doing the Adobe Acrobat post, I started thinking about Microsoft Office Document Imaging (a neat little part of Microsoft Office rarely noticed since it’s in the “Tools” folder). I decided to do a trial run to see if this program, which came with something I had anyway, could stand up to $229 Acrobat.

The engineer [...]

We’ve talked a lot about scanning books, and we’ve talked a lot about reading and marking up books, but we’ve kinda neglected the creation part of it. This post will try to fill the gap between buying the scanner and having a finished product to play with.

Summary:1. Why Adobe Acrobat2. The Scanning3. Making the PDF4. [...]

I found a nice answer on TabletPCBuzz.com to a question on how to keep file size down, speed up the process, and just really what to do after getting the book scanned. A big thanks to Buzz member mikieatton for letting us post his answer.

"I’ve scanned in a 650ish page book by chapters in [...]