Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/SarahPats

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I would like to request permission to upload a book: Real Estate Financing and Investment. This book is licensed under the Creative Commons and GNU at its original location here: http://worldacademyonline.com/book/real_estate_financing_and_investing/. I have also uploaded this to the Wiki Commons here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Real_Estate_Financing_and_Investment.tif&page=2

Please let me know how I can make this book available on Wikibooks. Thanks, --User:SarahPats


 * You don't need to upload the tif version again, as the Wikimedia Commons file is accessible directly from here. What does need to be done is the tif version needs to be converted into wiki text form to allow anyone to easily edit it and maintain it. --dark lama  11:47, 10 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the information. That's good to know. I am sorry if this question is quite basic, but how do I edit the tif file as a wiki text? Thanks, --User:SarahPats


 * You (or someone) will need to run the TIF file through a TIF to text (usually PDF) piece of software. Otherwise known as an OCR (optical character recognition) tool. Once that's been done, the text will need to be copied across... I may have a chance to look at doing this during the week. QU TalkQu 11:59, 10 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the information. I have googled how to do this and, while it sounds difficult, I will have a go at it! We'll see how long this takes me though! Thanks, --User:SarahPats


 * I have converted it into a PDF (well, 85 of them actually, one for each page). Just need to upload it all. QU TalkQu 13:25, 10 January 2011 (UTC)


 * That was very very fast. I havent even gotten to downloading the software for this and youre all done! ok, well thank you very very much for the help. Let me know if there is anything else that I need to do to get this book shared on Wikibooks! Thank you! --User:SarahPats


 * As QuiteUnusual mentioned, what he has done resulted in PDFs of images... which means that what is needed is OCR, Optical Character Recognition. What I can do is take either the TIFFs or QU's PDFs, and run them through some OCR software I work with at my day job. OCR is only 95-99% accurate, so it will need a lot of correction, but I can put the stuff here if you want -- you will need to edit it to make it make sense. Let me see what I can come up with... Chazz (talk) 06:51, 25 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Actually, it looks to be simpler to copy it from the original source. Chazz (talk) 17:59, 25 January 2011 (UTC)