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How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked

https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/
I bought my first ebook from amazon Amazon's Kindle Android app was really buggy and crashed a bunch Tried to download my book to use with a functioning reader app Realized Amazon no longer lets you do that Decided to reverse engineer their obfuscation system out of spite Discovered multiple layers of protection including randomized alphabets Defeated all of them with font matching wizardry

OCRAD.js: Pure Javascript OCR via Emscripten – Blog

http://antimatter15.com/wp/2013/12/ocrad-js-pure-javascript-ocr-via-emscripten/
The idea of the extension was kind of simple and also kind of magical: a browser extension that allowed users to highlight, copy, and paste text from any image as if it were plain text. Of course the implementation is a bit difficult and actually relies on the advent of a number of newfangled technologies.

OCRAD.js: Pure Javascript OCR via Emscripten – Blog

http://antimatter15.com/wp/2013/12/ocrad-js-pure-javascript-ocr-via-emscripten
The idea of the extension was kind of simple and also kind of magical: a browser extension that allowed users to highlight, copy, and paste text from any image as if it were plain text. Of course the implementation is a bit difficult and actually relies on the advent of a number of newfangled technologies.

unpaper 0.3

http://unpaper.berlios.de
unpaper is a post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper, especially for book pages that have been scanned from previously created photocopies. The main purpose is to make scanned book pages better readable on screen after conversion to PDF.

The Digital Book: Paper's Last Hurrah

http://gizmodo.com/5081875/the-digital-book-papers-last-hurrah
"While Sony Readers and Amazon Kindles take to the scene, one paper lover, in celebration of the Blood on Paper exhibition (something we've never heard of but have a pretty good idea what it's about), released this USB copy of The New Machiavelli. Photographed page by page, those who think its contents might resemble Google Book Search would be dreadfully wrongWe thoroughly enjoy that his hands are in each shot. That's what the fancy Kindle has been missing all this time!"