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Originally Posted by haertig
And who would scan a book with OCR to turn it into a eBook when most likely they would also have access to the original text used to create the printed book?
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Big Publishing Houses and others for quite a few years.
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Originally Posted by haertig
IF they indeed used OCR to create the eBook, that would explain the errors. Then the question might become, who in the world would want to use OCR in the first place? Maybe I could see that if this was some pirated eBook where the original source was not available. But unless my library is buying pirated eBooks and putting them up via Overdrive, I have a hard time comprehending why this would be an OCR-created eBook.
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This has been discussed for years. The hardback for your book came out at least as early as 2000 and 10 years after that the excuse was still that the computer files and software used to make paper books was incompatible with the same for ebooks. I don't know if it still happens for new books from large publishers, but I think it is still very common for old books just coming out as ebooks.
I do know, for example, that the ebook
Silent Spring from Amazon has been updated with higher resolution images, enhanced typesetting, and xray support, but the OCR errors are still there. If one of the most influential books of the previous century doesn't get typographic TLC, what can more run of the mill books expect?
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Originally Posted by haertig
But my question really was, "Is there anyone else that these errors bother?" Regardless of how they got there - be it OCR or something else. The cause of the errors was just an aside. OCR may explain the errors, as I hinted in my initial post, but it does not make them more palatable. At least not for me. I was asking if it bothered others as well.
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This has also been frequently discussed. It bothers a large number of people a lot and doesn't bother at all another large number of people and a lot of people are somewhere in between.