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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
I've used it.
Won't work properly for average PDFs that are scans. OCR after 30 years since Kurtzwiel is still poor. Only a starting point to human proof & convert for TEXT ONLY. Doesn't address technical documents well. An average book or magazine is WEEKS of work.
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your average pdf scans are really bad, or you used a really old version of Finereader.
Sure, it's far from perfect, and if the scan is bad, or the fonts in the book is "artistic" it can be time consuming to get something readable.
But Finereader from around version 10 or so became quite good, and I think it was around 12 it actually got quite impressive.
Still a lot of manual work
if you want it to look like a professionally made ebook, but if you just want to read it, it's pretty close to good enough most of the time, IMHO.
(Magazines are awful for ocr, mostly due to the layout, tiny fonts and a lot of graphics.)