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Originally Posted by Shigalyov
A slight variant on the question in the OP:
If I owned a paper book at home and I transcribed and then uploaded it to my eReader would that be lawful?
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An interesting note here about something US related.
PGP, due to its strong cryptography, was considered an ordinance (weapon) in the US. As such it, in compiled form, could not be exported from the US. To get around this, they would print it as a book, export the book from the US (not considered a weapon), OCR the book and recompile based on the OCR'ed source code.
As for the quote, it would likely still be a copyright infringement as copyright is to cover the copying of the work, which you would have done during transcription.