Rebuild blurry scanned Bengali books as typeset PDF and EPUB

A Redditor gave Gemini Task Mode several 300-page scanned Bengali books; it rebuilt them as PDF and EPUB with matching layout and saved them to Google Drive without any help.

Done withGeminiinGoogle Drive· Nov 9, 2026

What they did

Reddit user u/Free_Fisherman3697 had a few old Bengali books as scanned PDFs, each over 300 pages, with blurry scans, broken fonts and many complex conjunct characters. They gave them to Gemini 4 Argon in Task Mode on a Pro student plan and asked it to turn them into proper digital books. Gemini read the scans, recreated the text with close to the original typography, pagination, margins and page layout, produced both PDF and EPUB versions, and uploaded the files to the poster's Google Drive.

How it went

The whole job ran in Task Mode without the poster stepping in. They read one of the rebuilt books and say they found no noticeable mistakes. A commenter reported Task Mode also built an 80-page, nearly print-ready PDF of exam tasks for them with little quota used.

Worth knowing

The accuracy claim rests on the poster reading one book, not a page-by-page check against the scans. Task Mode is a separate mode from regular Gemini chat, and commenters say it behaves very differently. No timings were given.

Try it

With Gemini· 5 parts to fill in

I am attaching scanned books in [language], about [page count] pages each, and the scans are [condition, e.g. blurry with damaged characters]. Turn each into a clean digital book: transcribe the text accurately, keep the original pagination, margins and typography as closely as you can, and produce [PDF and/or EPUB] versions. Flag any page where you are unsure of the text. Save the finished files to [folder in my Google Drive] and give me a list of the flagged pages to check.

Square brackets are the parts to fill in. The prompt is ours; the story is theirs.

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