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I wrote a science fiction novel back in 1990 or thereabouts. It was read by Del Rey twice, but was ultimately rejected. That was long before the days of self publishing. I still have a copy of the printed manuscript (111275 words).

I would like to try again. I need to scan the printed pages and convert to Latex. That way I can make changes and create a PDF. I couldn't make the tags thing work, but they would be "scan convert text Latex"

Wayne Sewell
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  • More or less the same question here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15541/from-old-paper-documents-to-modern-latex-versions. I don't think the answer is immediately applicable but maybe it will give you some ideas. – Marijn Aug 01 '21 at 13:23
  • And if you use Windows then you could try InftyReader. – Marijn Aug 01 '21 at 13:32
  • Thanks for the suggestion, but I despise all things Microsoft with a white-hot passion, and wouldn't use them even at gunpoint. I should have mentioned that I use a Mac. But I will check out the other question. – Wayne Sewell Aug 01 '21 at 13:50
  • If you have your book as plain ascii/utf8 text, there is not much to do to get a first PDF. Use empty lines to separate paragraphs, mark section headings by \chapter{...}, \section{...}, \subsection{...} etc, add \documentclass{report}\begin{document} at the beginning and \end{document} at the end. This should compile and serve as a starting point for further improvements. – gernot Aug 01 '21 at 15:07
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    you could use any OCR reader to get the text from a scsan, google docs works OK and is free. Then addng the markup to latex for a novel should be pretty simple. – David Carlisle Aug 01 '21 at 18:03

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