Oriental Adventures was a huge move forward for 1st Edition AD&D, although there were some hints of the over-complication of 2E on the horizon.
Rather than use this space as a review of the game system itself, I'll speak to the quality of the scan. (I don't see a POD option.)
I purchased the PDFs to supplement my ancient rule books, largely because PDF is searchable. Throwing the old rules into Obsidian to manage the information overload is a great way to find what I'm looking for, particularly during a play session.
Unfortunately, this scan's OCR is pretty poor. The clarity of the scan is fine, and I can always figure out what should have been recognized on the text layer, but it frequently is not.
It's not likely important enough for me to try to re-recognize the text, although it's possible that my open-source tools could do a better job than Wizards did. I want to emphasize that the clarity of the scan seems top-notch.
Anyway, 4 out of 5 — quite good and very useful, but quite a lot of work to get useful text out of it.
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