It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable.

The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. And where does Pluto VIII fit into all this?Ĭreated by Hideyuki Kikuchi and illustrated by Saiko Takaki, the fourth manga adaptation of the Vampire Hunter D series is where sci-fi and the macabre clash, where mutant monsters feast and unheard of vampire powers are secretly kept, until now. But the particular parts that they play are what D has to unravel. What was thought to be a safe haven now shows signs of vampires running loose.Īs more and more of the townsfolk become denizens of the undead, it becomes clear that all is not what it seems and that both the mayor and Lori are somehow entangled in the confusing mystery. The incessant wanderings of D, the mysterious vampire hunter, brings him to a floating city of paradise-a utopian society the size of a small town hovering safely above the reach of the perils of the Frontier.Īfter a chance encounter and the subsequent rescue of Lori,a lone survivor of the savage wasteland, and a shady character named Pluto VIII, D is called by the mayor of the floating city to eradicate a problem-bite marks on the mayor’s daughter.

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