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Originally Posted by marst
I've had a few Kindle books that must have been done using this Topaz format -- judging by the above descriptions. One book had so many bizarre and ghastly typos (clearly OCR-related) that it was painful to read. Amazon, to its credit, was willing to take the thing back and refund the purchase price. I was a typesetter, back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth. We were required to proof our stuff before sending it out the door -- before the customer's own proofreaders started in on it. Standards appear to have changed...
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I'm glad Amazon refunded your purchase cost, but just to be clear the topaz format when viewed using a Kindle will not show any of the OCR flaws we're discussing. Since it is imaged based it will appear almost exactly as the originally published book from which it was scanned. The OCR inside of topaz books is not reading but to aid in searching the book by keyword.
Additionally if you used the stand alone "tools" you could view a perfect copy of the original book in Firefox which would assist you greatly in proofing the book.