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Originally Posted by DNSB
The last time I converted more than one PDF in a batch was a paying gig where an author had gotten rights to her books back but the only copies she had was PDFs the publisher had sent her years back. I did the conversion to docx with basic cleanup. She then pulled them into Word and did the edits and more cleanup before sending back to me for checking formatting before republishing them.
I suspect I undercharged her but my wife loved her books.
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Nice.
Yes, a lot of the work I do is also where the original files are completely lost. Think 1990s or 2000s digital publishing. The author/publisher might not even HAVE the original source files anymore... so the PDF (or physical book) is the only file left.
People/organizations are very bad at backing up important files.
For example, see video games from before 2000:
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Originally Posted by jackie_w
FWIW the main reason for my original post was to say that "where there's a will there's a way" but hoping for a one-size-fits-all "magic button" is likely to end in disappointment.
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Yep. Full agree on that.
