Thread: New trend? digitize your books for $1USD each.
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Old 08-12-2011, 12:15 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
That sounds like they are just scanning them as images, you'd have to do the whole OCR process yourself?
The web site says that the PDFs will have an OCR'd searchable text layer.

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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
If they did a good job, I'd be tempted. Yes I can scan them myself, but my time is worth more than $1 per 200 pages. The risk is that they do a crappy job, with missing or misaligned pages, and the original book is gone.
Let the reports and reviews begin.
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