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crankypants · 10-26-2015, 08:55 AM

Google books often has PDF files which are just a set of images of scans from an old book. Does this software convert those scanned images (inside the PDF) to text or EPUB? Calibre does this but only with 98% accuracy and Calibre doesn't support ligatures (like "if" next to each other which then becomes one electronic character). So if I have 1,000,000 words total in the book, then I have to find and correct 20,000 words that didn't get identified correctly. And that usually means going back to the PDF to read the actual text and type it in.

10-26-2015, 08:55 AM	#1201
crankypants Hmm. Posts: 124 Karma: 2016606 Join Date: Oct 2015 Device: Android 4.2 Google Play Reader	Google books often has PDF files which are just a set of images of scans from an old book. Does this software convert those scanned images (inside the PDF) to text or EPUB? Calibre does this but only with 98% accuracy and Calibre doesn't support ligatures (like "if" next to each other which then becomes one electronic character). So if I have 1,000,000 words total in the book, then I have to find and correct 20,000 words that didn't get identified correctly. And that usually means going back to the PDF to read the actual text and type it in.