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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nnms" data-source="post: 4769077" data-attributes="member: 83293">The guy in my group who pirates everything reports the first 5 chapters are now on torrents in a searchable format.  I expressed that this is quite a delay compared to what some people were predicting on the internet.  I was informed that before WotC sold PDFs, it would take about 3 months for someone to get around to scanning the latest book and uploading it for some titles.So chapter by chapter seems pretty fast to me.All this talk about how easy OCR is and how well it works finally got me around to trying it.  I have some documents I made for my business a few years back and had lost the word documents for.  I have a cheap all-in-one printer so I fired it up.  I scanned directly to acrobat pro and ran the OCR option.  It worked 100% perfectly and was done in the background while I did other things with the computer.  Time taken was about 4 minutes a page.I can imagine that a pirate who gets the binding cut off the book and feeds it through an automatic scanner could get a whole book done very quickly.  Then when the job is done they could get their book rebound with coil binding to lie flat.I might start doing it myself to make my own PDFs as I feel naked without a computer as my DM screen.</blockquote>