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Old 11-20-2015, 05:08 PM   #92
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Originally Posted by murg View Post
Good question.

Basically, the contents had the appearance of a scanned book which has been mostly proofed. The main errors were punctuation, especially missing quotes. A few instances of scan errors (be not he, fetch not fletch), but not consistently.
But backlist ebooks are generally created by OCR when no digital copy is available. How do your observations lead you to the conclusion that your book is "obviously sourced from a pirated book" rather than from a scan made by the publisher?
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