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Old 09-28-2013, 04:40 PM   #631
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Originally Posted by ectoplasm View Post
It looks like you don't understand that PDFs are not necessarily scanned images that are OCR'd. Commercial ebook PDFs are almost always created directly from a digital source. There can be no errors and there is no "scanned layer".
I was agreeing with you until the "There can be no errors". Maybe no errors introduced by OCR but I've seldom read any ebook in any format that did not include a couple of spelling and/or grammar errors. Quite a few of those errors are the type that indicated a dependence on software to proof the copy and not a human eye. One recent ebook I read had spots which reminded me of the spellchecker poem.

Code:
I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC
It highlights for my review
Mistakes I cannot sea.

I ran this poem thru it
I'm sure your pleased to no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My checker told me sew.
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David
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