Thread: Is manual page capture the real bottleneck in scanning owned physical books?
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Old 07-07-2026, 10:01 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
Don't bother downloading ebooks from Archive. They are rubbish.
I agree that the OCR is miserable, rubbish even.

Still as someone interested in old forms of textile work, the scans are very useful. I am grateful that I can download a 16th century pattern book when I'd never ever be able to access the original.
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