What's the best way (app?) to get printed text into Obsidian?

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Trying to get printed text into Obsidian as Markdown

What’s the best method to get media from books into Obsidian as text/markdown?
I already have a Fujitsu ScanSnap which is great for individual sheets, but I’m looking for a method to enter a highlighted paragraph in a book for instance.

Thank you!
Dave

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I don’t know the best. But I do personally use Readwise, and they have tools for OCR from physical print. How do I import highlights from physical or paper books? - Readwise

Then it syncs into Obsidian through their plugin.

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Use the text recognition that’s built into your phone’s camera, if available. On iOS the feature is called Live Text; there are various ways to use it but in this case I’d tap in the note and then in the iOS context menu bar thing tap this symbol:

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That’ll open a camera view to capture the text. (For more details see Apple’s iOS help page.)

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Thanks, Rig. I’ve been looking at Readwise/Reader and will likely include that in my workflow.

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Thanks, Cawlin. I’ll try that one out too.