not being able to ctrl-F a textbook or have click-to-chapter links sure makes studying harder these days… and any scanning software worth it’s salt will at least do the bare minimum OCR automatically…
I much prefer doing ocr by myself if really needed, than getting an half assed “book” full of typos and broken tables just because someone did an automated OCR but didn’t have the 5-6 hours required to manually edit to make it decent
Already be thankful that someone took the time to flip page by page in their scanner manually and upload it somewhere
Sites like Anna’s library should permit users to flag books without OCR and permit users to submit OCR version of the books.
Bitch you can’t ctrl-F or click to chapter in an actual book either.
Wait until OP hears about the Index at the back of the book.
I know, that’s my point! PDF’s are inherently superior BECAUSE you can usually CTRL-F them.
By the time you finished making this snarky meme, you could’ve set up a program to OCR a book yourself.
You can do it yourself:
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
https://library.bz/main/upload/ anonymous username
genesispassworduploadLook, it’s all about authorial intent - if the author had wanted their book to be easy to reference or accessible to people who use screen readers, they would have published a DRM free PDF in the first place. Gotta respect the artist’s vision.
…and sometimes the artist turns out to be an idiot :D
Simple: pirate adobe acrobat and ocr them yourself.
Or OCRMyPDF https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
OCR’ing a book before uploading saves so much hours on the user end of things. I wish it were done more so I don’t have to leave my computer running overnight to batch OCR stuff.
I hope this sentiment never stops someone from uploading a textbook without OCR. Once it’s scanned it can always be OCRed at a later time.
OCR?
