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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
I searched for it and it requires manual intervention, which means the millions of book scans from Google Books PDFs do not have it. PDF is not used just for fixed layout, but also as a simple container of images, which is what scans are.
ePubs require either manual typing of the text (easy for new books but hard for classics a la gutenberg) or OCR to automatically convert from the scans. PDF is way cheaper because it doesn't need OCR, just the page scans.
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I don't think that Sonist was talking about scans. You do know that you can easily generate pdf files from other file types, and that those will reflow, right?