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Originally Posted by charleski
Nothing could be further from the truth. Converting a layout into code depends on the layout being coherent and harmonious. Most of the time it looks good, but underneath the hood it's a mess. No way does it only take 3-4 hours to OCR a book - that's pure fantasy. Even when a previous ebook version exists, converting it to a different format depends on the original being coded correctly - far too often they're a mess of adhoc styles and embedded linebreaks that ignore basic principles of typesetting and need to be refactored.
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I don't know.
When my wife used to proofread fiction, she got them as reflowable pdf files. Seems to me that these are generally pretty simple to convert to other formats.
And, you need only pay the price for cleaning up the file once per opus. As opposed to warehousing, shipping and markup for the assumed return rate on paper books which occurs for each individual book.