Comment by pmarreck

I have some out-of-print books that I want to convert into nice pdf's/epubs (like, reference-quality)

1) I don't mind destroying the binding to get the best quality. How do I do so?

2) I have a multipage double-sided scanner (fujitsu scansnap). would this be sufficient to do the scan portion?

3) Is there anything that determines the font of the book text and reproduces that somehow? and that deals with things like bold and italic and applies that either as markdown output or what have you?

4) how do you de-paginate the raw text to reflow into (say) an epub format that will paginate based on the output device specification?