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Old 03-12-2010, 12:47 PM   #2
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It sounds like you scanned it in as "image only" and didn't use any OCR (optical character recognition) software to translate the shapes into actual text. If you want to try to live with that, there are tools around that can help you--like pdflrf and pdfcropper (there are threads which discuss these here on MR). I believe they can trim out white space and section scanned image into smaller pieces that each display larger on a reader, and can even assemble them into an LRF file the Sony can read. The files end up being rather largish, compared to a properly formatted, text-based eBook file.

That would be the "quick and dirty" method.

The better approach, IMO, would be to use some OCR software to extract the text, and then if you save in HTML you can use Calibre to convert it into the eBook format of your pleasure.

Good luck!
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