An old scanned procedure should be possible to revise
Recover the text structure of a printed document from its scanned image. Markdown makes the result easy to edit, but page furniture, multi-column layouts and footnotes need attention before the document reads in its intended order.
Maintaining image-only procedure documents
Recover headings and numbered steps from an old scan so you can revise a checked text copy and preserve the original for reference.
Preparing source excerpts for research notes
Bring visible passages into Markdown, checking quotation accuracy and adding bibliographic information yourself.
Recover the page’s reading order before editing its structure
- Use an upright scan image with the entire relevant text block visible.
- Review heading hierarchy and reading order, removing repeated page furniture when appropriate.
- Edit footnotes and page joins in your Markdown editor while comparing with the source document.
Multi-column scans, footnotes and PDF inputs
- Does document image to Markdown accept a complete PDF?
- This page accepts images of document pages. Use the appropriate PDF text workflow for an existing PDF file rather than renaming it as an image.
- Will two-column pages be read in the correct sequence?
- Columns can be interleaved by recognition. Check the reading order, or process clearly separated text regions when the layout is complex.
- Are footnotes automatically connected to their references?
- Do not assume the relationship is rebuilt. Check footnote markers and add the syntax your Markdown editor expects.
- Does OCR modernize or summarize the document wording?
- Use this workflow to recover visible content, then review it against the source. Rewriting or summarizing is a separate editorial task.
