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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 4752488" data-attributes="member: 18549">The OCR I'm familiar with is in older science articles scanned for archival in online repositories.  Lots of non-standard jargon words in there, and I expect that the people doing the scanning are probably not paid very well--RA salaries, most likely, although I don't know for sure.  So it's not crazy to think that someone with a free weekend or two could crank out a professional-quality scan.  At least, as professional as JStor is.  The thing is, if I wanted to, I could sit down and type out the PHB 2 in less than a day.  Presto, I have a text document.  If I were going to be clever, I'd do it line by line as it appeared in the book with returns at the end of each line.  No OCR scan required, and I get the text right the first time.  Then, assuming that the PDF software I've pirated is reasonably useful, I would just copy-paste or copy-associate the text line by line.More than 10 hours of work, for sure.  But if someone is motivated to produce a good pirated PDF, it's not unreasonable.  I can't understand why anyone would want to both scanning in a whole book, clean it up, and assemble it into a PDF in the first place, but maybe I'm just lazy.  Still, people do, and the difference between a terrible scan and a good one is simply the level of motivation of the scanner.Not to mention that if the original scan was good enough (i.e. high-resolution), but not OCRed or bookmarked, someone else could just add those things and repost it.  We could call it WikiPiracy.  User-edited copyright infringement.</blockquote>

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