I'm at the point where I need to get rid of a number of books, due to space considerations. They are almost all second-hand books, in a condition where they wouldn't grace anyone's bookshelf, and almost every one is
not available in e-book format to buy.
I don't mind destroying the books, so that I can get flat scans of the pages (and at least it makes the paper easier to recycle), but what is the best format to archive them to?
My immediate thought was archive to PDF, and then convert to EPUB as and when I have the time and inclination to do it. How good is OCRing from PDFs? Or should I just archive the scans themselves, and OCR as and when?