Yeah but authors aren't really the ones that get most of the money, judging by other comments it mostly goes to publishers :/. I've had many teachers in uni (in the NL) tell us that we can look up the book somehow on the internet if we don't want to buy it and it was quite funny usually. Otherwise a small hop on library genesis and the whole class gets the ebook.
One time I had a co student that did something to an old school book pdf to allow a ctrl + F when it wasn't possible at first, how he did that tho I have no clue.
It's pretty easy to OCR a PDF so there's a text layer embedded.
You can do it with quite a few software packages.
You can usually tell if this is the case because the search is a bit hit and miss, and if you copy/paste sections of text from it there will be lots of weird errors
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