Making e-books?

[Grunf]

What's the best way to make pdf e-book? I've never done that so any tip would be helpful.

Thanks in advance
Best regards

[rendel_©]

Use the adobe acrobat professional, if you have that software you can convert microsoft word and excel to pdf and combine it in one pdf file.

[Grunf]

Sorry if I didn't expressed precisely - a book is in "paper format" (it is printed) so I need somehow to scan it and if there is a way convert it to pdf..?

[Yasir]

when you will scan the paper usually it ask about the format and usually pdf is available. even if it's not available using adobe acrobat professional you can create pdf.
Hope it works

[BennyP]

I'm using every day a Toshiba e-Studio 450 (laser printer) to scan and send to email in PDF format.
I think every printer maker have models combining copy, fax and scanner. For books is difficult to scan every page but the answer is - some scanners scan in PDF.

[emmi]

What software sutable to convert pdf(from Scanner) to MS word or Excel or Powerpoint? give advice please?

[Grunf]

@ emmi

If you want to convert picture with text (even tables and maybe diagrams) into just a text that you can modify/ copy-paste or something else, use ABBYY FineReader. Here is link to it:

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P.S. This software can even convert scanned handwriting into MS Word text..

[emmi]

What the newest version now?

[Grunf]

According to my friend Google :) latest version of the ABBYY software is ABBYY FineReader 9.0 - i.e. version that I've linked in previously mentioned:

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[BennyP]

I think that the last version is 9.0.1042 but 9.0.1019 (from the link above) is the first supporting OCR for some new languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian).