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fivebells · 12-14-2010, 04:26 PM

I would like to convert PDF documents to the native Kindle format, preferably using linux tools, but windows tools would OK too. Both the Amazon email-based conversion service and Calibre mangle tables and images pretty badly. I've heard that converting from html often works better. pdftohtml does a beautiful job of converting pdfs to html when I pass it the "-c" option. It generates a large number of html and image files which the Amazon conversion service doesn't recognize as a single document. Calibre can work with the output of pdftohtml if I provide it as a zip file, but the mobi-format files it generates still have mangled tables and no images. Is there something else I should try?

12-14-2010, 04:26 PM	#1
fivebells Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle	PDF conversion which respects images/tables? I would like to convert PDF documents to the native Kindle format, preferably using linux tools, but windows tools would OK too. Both the Amazon email-based conversion service and Calibre mangle tables and images pretty badly. I've heard that converting from html often works better. pdftohtml does a beautiful job of converting pdfs to html when I pass it the "-c" option. It generates a large number of html and image files which the Amazon conversion service doesn't recognize as a single document. Calibre can work with the output of pdftohtml if I provide it as a zip file, but the mobi-format files it generates still have mangled tables and no images. Is there something else I should try?