I would OCR the book with ABBYY, save it as Word document and then use my add-in to thoroughly clean it up and repair most of the errors. The add-in has various tools that will do that (semi-)automatically for you. That would save a lot of time. Then you can export it to ePUB, but don't expect it too look the same as the source (depending on the source though). However, you can style the ePUB as you want with a stylesheet.
If you want a perfect copy, you will need to go through every page to see if all the breaks and punctuation is correct. You can only manage that by proofreading.
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