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Originally Posted by Muckraker
I learned that all the big publishing houses have no digital copies of their own material--even a lot of stuff that was digital at some point. So they essentially have an intern sitting there running OCR on a paperback and posting it directly for sale.
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Yes, for back catalogue stuff that's absolutely true, and much of it is riddled with errors. New books should be pretty good; if they aren't, you should complain to the publisher. Good publishers will (and do) fix errors.
The example you quote is unusually bad. You generally at least get OCR + spell check. That can mean you end up with the wrong word (eg "be" instead of "he", or "clock" instead of "dock") but you do at least normally get recognisable words.