Now and again I'll come across some interesting old books/publications on the likes of archive.org which have been scanned to PDF. The text is OCR'd to some extent, as I can select/copy sections of text no problem. However, the text displayed in the PDF itself is pretty rubbish quality which makes it unpleasant to read.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to deal with this, e.g. a reader that can replace the scanned text with a proper font, or a tool to convert and do the same? As above, it seems the hard work of actually OCR-ing has already been done by the archivers.
It had crossed my mind to just copy/paste all of the text, but the books often have in-line images so it's not ideal as they would be missing with a straightforward text rip.
And yeah I have pursued just buying a modern reprint (actually my first thought before checking archives) but some are long since out of print so the digital copy is about the only way to read it, unless I could find a copy in a library somewhere.
Thanks for any ideas!!