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Old 05-11-2025, 08:42 AM   #2826
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Another possibility is that they are using K4PC to display the page on a virtual monitor and doing a screen cap of each page, sending it to their servers for OCR and then sending the results back as text/whatever to be converted back to whatever output format they may be using.
This statement from their description page makes that unlikely to me:

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Will DRM removal affect the quality or structure of my eBook?

Not at all. BookFab safely removes DRM restrictions without altering the original quality, layout, or formatting of the eBook content.
Using OCR would significantly affect all of those attributes.


One other thing I noticed in their description today:

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With just one click, this best eBook Converter for Kindle transforms your KFX files into the universally supported EPUB format.
If I recall correctly that previously said MOBI, not KFX. Perhaps another clue?
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