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Originally Posted by vranghel
A nice easy way of circumventing DRM is setting the scanner to scan iLiads screen size then using an OCR'ing software to extract the text from it;
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Since there is no DRM on the iLiad so far, it seems a bit like overkill.
When DRM appears it will probably not be a very attractive way of extracting text contents. 170 dpi makes for rather noisy scans -- and that will give rather noisy OCR results. You'll have to do quite a lot of editing to get the same text quality as the original file had.
There are usually better ways -- if it's a popular novel, buy a paperback, cut the back off, scan the pages at 450 dpi or so, and the number of transcription errors will be much lower. You *still* have to proofread if you want the text quality of the original. (As you explicitly say 'extract the text' I'm ignoring using page scans immediately.) And even then, you may have to tweak the text to the format you want it in.
At that point the benefit of having the text better outweigh the pain and effort you have to spend to get at it.