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Books get pirated via OCR all the time. It's barely even a road bump.

• HideousKojima 4y ago
  Also any moderate to large library will have book scanners, and even some smaller ones
  • fsckboy 4y ago
    are you talking about photocopy machines, or something fancier like "to your SD card" or something really fancy like "turns the pages for you"?
    • renewiltord 4y ago
      No, you turn the pages, but you don't have to unbind the book or press the face down to get a good scan. Just place the book facing up and turn the page and it will perspective correct and scan for you. Something like this is what I've used before https://thecrowleycompany.com/digitization-products/large-format-book-scanners/a3-overhead-scanners/zeta-book-scanner/ https://thecrowleycompany.com/digitization-products/large-fo...
      • CydeWeys 4y ago
        And it's worth pointing out that this process doesn't take that long. A few seconds per page, plus you're photographing two pages at once so you're only turning N/2 pages, or ~170 times for your average length novel. You can definitely plow through multiple books in an hour this way.