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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Provided a PDF was available during the big 2006ish-2009ish push to get everything they could (had rights to) out on Kindle/eBook they would have tried to either convert it or OCR the PDF which back then & sometimes even now would often produce questionable results.
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I would go out on a limb and say that OCRing the PDF might have actually produced
less atrocious results than the available conversion pipelines for PDF at the time would have.
That's what some people don't understand. At that time, having an electronic version of the book only in the PDF format wasn't really distinguishable from NOT having an electronic version
at all. Not from a workflow standpoint, anyway. OCRing PDFs was often the saner, more efficient, choice, in fact.
That has changed, of course, in the years since the PDF format became open and standardized in 2008.