Thread: Typos in ebooks
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Old 04-09-2010, 08:32 PM   #66
WarnerYoung
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The only format conversion that tends to introduce textual errors is converting from PDF to something else, because a PDF file doesn't contain "text" at all, and the conversion tool has to "reconstruct" the page from what are basically graphical components.

Conversion between "text" formats - ePub, Lit, Mobi, etc - should be "lossless" as far as the actual text is concerned. You may, however, lose formatting in the process.
I'm not sure that's strictly true. It depends on how the PDF file was generated. Otherwise, a standard PDF reader wouldn't be able to let you select and copy its text, or search through the text in its files. Or am I missing something here?
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