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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, I understand that, but I thought they sent you a PDF page scan, too?
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We deal with Bookscan, the Japanese company direct, (I am in Australia) not their new US operation. You get the book in a format that suits a specified reader - in my case the Kindle DX. I believe that they use software called Finetune to do it. You do not get an editable file, unless you use their (more expensive) premium service though a lot of people have been converting them into a file that can be edited. Calibre will handle conversion to most formats, but still as a PDF. Out of curiosity I tried it with the OCR software that came with my Epson V700 and it converted it quite accurately and quickly into a text file. The only reason I can think of for doing that is to allow you to vary the fonts and sizes in your reader. I don't bother.