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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
However, this is a new release, not a reprint. There's no reason for OCR to be involved.
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Don't count on it. Many (many) publishers, even today, only do the print layout professionally in the States, and then ship PDF's of the "new release" to a commercial converter, usually in India or another third-world country. In fact, virtually every single Indian company prices all books (from Word, RTF, you-name-it, as well as PDF) by "the page," because that's how they know how to work: from PDF pages. I know of one company, shall remain unnamed, and more than a few, from anecdotal but reliable sources, that--I s**t thee not--take a Word file, exports it to PDF via Acrobat Pro, and then runs the resulting PDF through their rote process. (Abbyy-->OCR-->Output to HTML). No: I did not make that up.
THAT is why new releases have these type of errors, very frequently. Some of the largest stateside conversion houses are actually two US citizens in a small office, with the entire staff in India; they're a paid front for Indian companies. I know of extremely few publishers who are willing to pay even steeply discounted rates for US producers, and worse: almost none of the ePUB- and MOBI-output is proofed when it's returned to the publisher.
And therein lies the problem. Trust me on this one kids, I know whereof I speak.
Hitch