Is there a way to transfer pages from a physical book to your computer?

Try this.

I’m on a MAC and that is WAY complicated! ;)

You need Optical Character Reader scanning capability.

By the way, scanning printed books violates the copyright.

Oh it does???
Oh crap I didn’t know that. – thank you.

Maybe I will delete my question….. ha ha x

our teachers copied pages from books all the time.
ignore the copyright.

You need a batch scanner with OCR (optical character recognition).

This may do the trick.

You don’t really need a scanner with OCR built in. You just need an app.

Use Image Capture (built into macOS) or any other scanning app to capture scanned images of your pages. Then use something like PDFpen or ABBYY FineReader to detect and add a text layer to the images. Easy peasy. ^_^

Though I have never done it, It might be easier to pay for or find an “E” Kindle version of the book and then just copy and past the text. My library offers thousands of books online for free.

Thanks guys! Will see what works…. x

How about just photocopying them? Most libraries have cheap photocopiers.