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This is good to know. I was not aware of services which will scan books you own. I think this is the route gwern should go.
My own experience with OCR is that it's generally pretty bad unless it's done by Google and/or you put a lot of effort into cleaning the images. Though, I have only used free services, so perhaps my experience is limited.