Some of Google"s full view books can now be seen in a plain text version, additional to the existing images of text. This will allow you to copy the text for personal use, or to create a website of it, or have it be read by a screen reader, or do anything else you want (commercial and non-commercial). To search for full view books, use the advanced search page of Google Books and check the "full view" option. Now when you"re in the book view of a result, click the "view plain text" link at the top right. (Not all full view books were showing this link when I tried.)
The quality of the optical character regocnition Google runs over the scanned pages varies, depending on the book font used. Take this piece from Sha ...
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