Tim continues to post incredibly useful and interesting Instructables, this one is pretty straight forward, scanning an entire book to PDF – Link.
Related:
$35000 book scanner – make a LEGO version? – Link.
12 thoughts on “How to “Steal This Book””
theartfuldodgersays:
Judging from the piture, the title should read ” How to Lose a Finger”
theartfuldodgersays:
*picture
philliptorronesays:
i love tim’s instructables and comments, most people wouldn’t but the “oops” in it – he does. i have a crush on tim, in a good way.
theartfuldodgersays:
haha…I guess I should have RTFA.
super_J_dynamitesays:
I’d like to do this with some manuals I have, but I don’t want to drop $300 on the full version of Acrobat. Is there any free software to take a pile of TIFFs and make them into a PDF?
flakelabssays:
Assuming you are on windows…
Cute PDF is a virtual printer that will print anything to a pdf… so take stack of tifs.. select all.. right click.. hit print.. suffer through M$ print dialog.. print 1 per page.. then select cute pdf printer.
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Judging from the piture, the title should read ” How to Lose a Finger”
*picture
i love tim’s instructables and comments, most people wouldn’t but the “oops” in it – he does. i have a crush on tim, in a good way.
haha…I guess I should have RTFA.
I’d like to do this with some manuals I have, but I don’t want to drop $300 on the full version of Acrobat. Is there any free software to take a pile of TIFFs and make them into a PDF?
Assuming you are on windows…
Cute PDF is a virtual printer that will print anything to a pdf… so take stack of tifs.. select all.. right click.. hit print.. suffer through M$ print dialog.. print 1 per page.. then select cute pdf printer.