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senseabove · 01-13-2009, 08:14 PM

Similar but not quite the same problem: Is there any software that can automatically split two-on-one pdf pages into two separate pages? Basically, I want to convert scanned PDFs from double-paged landscape layout to single-paged portrait layout.

From the list of functions in an old thread, PDFRead supposedly can do something similar, but I was curious to know if I'm understanding that correctly before I install devtools and the rest. I'd also prefer keeping it in PDF, but, skimming the PDFRead threads, all discussion seems to be about converting to another format. I suppose conversion is fine, but I hate relying on OCR to get words correct, especially with moderately grainy and small-font-size scanned PDFs.

01-13-2009, 08:14 PM	#6
senseabove Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Iliad or DS?	Similar but not quite the same problem: Is there any software that can automatically split two-on-one pdf pages into two separate pages? Basically, I want to convert scanned PDFs from double-paged landscape layout to single-paged portrait layout. From the list of functions in an old thread, PDFRead supposedly can do something similar, but I was curious to know if I'm understanding that correctly before I install devtools and the rest. I'd also prefer keeping it in PDF, but, skimming the PDFRead threads, all discussion seems to be about converting to another format. I suppose conversion is fine, but I hate relying on OCR to get words correct, especially with moderately grainy and small-font-size scanned PDFs.