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nekokami · 10-01-2007, 11:54 AM

I suppose the films could be used to make image PDFs, but most people wouldn't be satisfied with that.

I'd accept quite a few OCR errors in the Baen Free Library, but it would be nice if publishers could recover at least some of their costs by selling backlist ebooks. And I can see that science fiction, in particular, would be tricky to OCR, because of the high incidence of non-dictionary words (including the occasional weird punctuation and even fictional alphabets).

10-01-2007, 11:54 AM	#23
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	I suppose the films could be used to make image PDFs, but most people wouldn't be satisfied with that. I'd accept quite a few OCR errors in the Baen Free Library, but it would be nice if publishers could recover at least some of their costs by selling backlist ebooks. And I can see that science fiction, in particular, would be tricky to OCR, because of the high incidence of non-dictionary words (including the occasional weird punctuation and even fictional alphabets).