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...I'm pretty tolerant of spelling and punctuation errors, so I think I could make do with OK scans. I edit for a living and pretty much turn off my editing mode when it comes to leisure reading. Otherwise, errors would ruin reading for me.
I'm intolerant of most spelling and punctuation errors--they would detract from my reading experience--so, since my scans are readable as is, I prefer to skip OCR, etc. and hold out for an affordable reader that can handle my PDFs as is.
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My initial tests were done with Iris software (free with my HP multifunction) targetted to 'readable pdf'. THis looked pretty much like the original book page even though there was selectable text in it. I suspect that this means that you would see the text as was even though the OCR might have mistaken some characters.
The point about this was that a two page scan took up 1.3MB rather than 11MB for an uncompressed TIF and 9 MB for a compressed TIF.
I guess I'm probably in the don't care about minor errors camp. However, I think I might keep the images of the first few dozen books until I'm sure it works well enough.
Iain