An old memoir
Evnin' all.
I've got a book/let produced by an uncle of mine about his time as a private soldier in WW1. It was retyped in the late '70s and seems to be on A4 size pages but was clearly done on a manual typewriter in (I think) Courier 14pt. I volunteered to scan it into my PC and turn it into a Word document, but it has turned into a nightmare task. Although the paper seems to be A4 it never seems to be a complete match on the scanner. There are multiple typos that need correcting but they seem to be generated by the scanner, but not all of them! I now have some individual pages scanned in and edited but there are only 375 left to do! I'm not sure if I'll live long enough to see the end. Has anyone any procedural suggestions as to a way of speeding up the process? Spending large sums on a sexy new scanner isn't an option.
Is making it a Word document the best way? Alll the pages I've done so far are one side only. The book itself is moderately fragile and lots of the pages are loose (which does have the benefit of making them easier to get into the scanner). All suggestions will receive due consideration. TIA
The Ancient Mariner