Eli5: how were things like old books digitized for the internet? Did someone scan each page? Did they just re-type it word for word?

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I was thinking about public domain books and it got me wondering.

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My guess would be first scanning, then converting the results to text using optical character recognition. Maybe have a human proofreader check over everything for formatting or glitches.

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