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This chessvision service reminds me of the app Chess Book Study. End user still has to provide the PDF content, but the paid service performs an OCR of the chess diagrams and has a built-in engine. 
Neat option for those who don’t want to setup the diagrams in puzzle books in any of the popular apps. 

How long will ChessVision allow the user To access the OCR’d content? What happens if an end user uploads 10 PDFs in one month and not renew the next month? Does the end user need to maintain the monthly subscription? 
Chessable is a free-to-join website, and the user only pays for the content which the user can access as long as the website exists.

chessvision.ai eBook Reader is also free-to-join. You can use the free account to upload as many PDFs as you want to see if you like it - the limitation of the free account is that you can scan the diagrams only on the first several pages of each book. The premium account is a subscription model - you get access to all the diagrams when you have an active subscription.

Can recommend chessvision as it's like chessable but you can  bring your own books.  It has many of the options, and especially good at following along the books and diagrams, especialy for older books that may longer be in print.

It's a PDF reader so users must supply their own PDFs. By scanning, did you mean scanning physical books?

Then you have to make PDFs from them somehow. I'm thinking about providing an easy to use mobile app for that purpose.

I do not see most chess book owners to scan their own books one page at a time to upload to the site. I can imagine people using the free option to upload a few pages of the book that they would like to play through with the assistance of an engine. Even that would lose its novelty quickly. 
I know that Publishers sell PDFs of their books, and some of them already offer interactive versions of their Chess books. 
What kind of copyright issues have been addressed with regards to the upload of PDFs of chess books to the ChessVision site? 

As you said, many publishers provide PDF versions of their books, and Amazon provides azw or mobi for books too.  azw/mobi to pdf is a fairly simple conversion.

@chessroboto UI/UX wise, what are the most important features.  Have you seen a particular layout that you like most?  What are the format of these books?

I am quite forgiving with layouts. What's more important to me are Value and Functionality - in that order.

When considering ChessVision, I am having to weigh the cost to purchase physical books and Chessbase with Fritz/Komodo/Houdini or Chess Assistant with Houdini versus paying for PDFs/electronic versions of chess books and to maintain a monthly subscription to OCR the diagrams to run against an engine and not be able to save the analysis so that I can review it offline.

I also have to mention that Chessable.com has been releasing the MoveTrainer versions of modern chess books from various publishers. Granted, the selection is limited to whatever Chessable releases compared to whatever the end-user has at hand. Like ChessVision, Chessable has their own version of an analysis engine running Stockfish for any position on the board.

But seriously, what about the copyright legalities of uploading PDFs into ChessVision? I cannot find any language about this online.

@chessroboto Can you elaborate on the minimum functionality?  I designed a chess gui based on minimal design with a focus on core functionality.  You can read about it here.  One feature I was trying to consider is an interactive chess book.  I haven't really used any myself.  I use physical books with a chess engine on my computer or a physical board.  I even considered what file format such an interactive chess book should be like.

I will try this at some point by uploading a few pages to see how I feel about it. That's the only way that I can answer how I feel about the functionality of any product or service. But as I've mentioned, my only reservation is the uploading of pages of a book. I don't want to get in any legal trouble.

You can always go the ScidvsPC route along with Stockfish as a free alternative.

I think the basic functionality for an interactive chess book is: viewing the book and an interactive chess board. Should it be 50/50 views or 70/30?

Is there anything else you'd like to see UI/UX-wise for an interactive chess book?

Thank you @chessroboto for such a informative thread.

For those reading Kindle books on an iPad, one feature they can make use of is the Split View in iPad.  One can run two apps next to one another.

Most Chess apps don’t support this feature and in most cases, the kindle app opens as an floating app rather than in split mode.

The best option for Split view is a free app which is a chess.com rival, so I won’t post screenshots here. The app nicely resizes itself in a split screen mode, making it possible to view the game in interactive mode, engine analysis and even edit positions on the board.

Thanks. More titles continue to be released, but I do not hear any feedback from serious students of the game anymore.

Anybody mention Chess PGN Master? To view / replay pgn games.  One feature I like with it, is that you can switch to "Play against engine" at any position, and then you can go back to the main line of the game later .