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Originally Posted by HarryT
If, though, the text is produced and stored electronically, there's really no reason that should be. The process of format conversion per se shouldn't introduce errors into the text, should it?
It sounds, from what you say, almost as if some publishers are using an OCR process to produce their eBooks, which sounds a little bizarre!
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Bizarre but true I believe. Some (maybe many) publishers don't have source control for their documents. The only good copy they have is paper. This is because they don't control the change cycle and end up with a fractured database over many different machines and thus the paper copy is, in fact, the only good copy. If they decide later to produce an eBook then they OCR the only good copy they have.
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