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Why don't people who do this have a scanner that outputs text.

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Because it's a lot faster to take pictures most likely, unless you have some really fancy (expensive) scanner that is specifically made for books.

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I guess, my scanner will scan a page and output text in PDF form. I thought this was pretty standard.

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Wtf dude. Have you ever seen a book? Can you ballpark the ways in which it might be harder to scan an entire book into text than it would be to scan an individual sheet of paper?