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Keep in mind that another one of googles arms is working hard on the OCRopus project, which is designed to improve scanning of books. Most Commercial OCR systems available today are designed towards the scanning business documents. They make no secret that the driver for this project is the google books initiative.
I'm sure there will still be flaws in the scans (they'll never hit 100%), but the improvements will be very welcome, and if they are releasing non-drm'ed scans, then we'll be able to fix the scanning artifacts and re-convert for a reading device. This is a big improvement over the amazing amount of flaws that I find in DRMed eBooks, which I cannot correct and will continue to drive me crazy each time I read a book (I'm a cronic re-reader).
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