Content problem viewing "OCRd" pdf on voyage

[cadele]

+1 for Abbyy Finereader. It works very well. I output to either ePub or Word and then convert to a kindle format with Calibre.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by rellim.j.mot

I am using AABBY.

In that case don't choose PDF as your output format. Convert to some other format such as ePub or Word, and then convert that to AZW3.

EDIT: cadele beat me to it

[rellim.j.mot]

Thanks! I will give that a try.

[markom]

Originally Posted by rellim.j.mot

rats, yet another indication I chose poorly with this device.

If the text width in your paper books is about 12 cm (landscape width of 6" screen) or smaller, then you can read it comfortably in landscape with pdf margins cropped.

If our ereader has poor pdf cropping capabilities or is slow at zooming, flipping etc. we can use k2pdfopt app to optimize pdf beforehand on our PC.

k2pdfopt app can automatically crop the margins and cut out the pdf page so as to fit any ereader' screen perfectly in landscape or portraite.

http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/

If you can send a link to a couple of your standard pdf pages I can try to crop them for voyage dimensions using k2pdfopt and then if you'd like the outcome, I could explain to you how to do it easily.

k2pdfopt can also reflow bigger scanned pdf pages, but unlike pdf apps in e-readers that usually reflow just the OCR layer behind the pdf image, k2pdfopt reflows pdf image itself (not OCR layer if it is there) as we would cut out the bigger paper page using a pair of scissors and then paste the words at will on the smaller screen.

That is particularly important for scientific pdfs which don't allow any OCR errors.

I would rather buy some 8" eink reader with the light, though, like upcoming Onyx i86 to have the whole pdf page visible in portraite.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by rellim.j.mot

I am using AABBY.

You may have an 'underachieving' scanner.

Don't expect a textbook (which may be an unusual size and/or have a large, stiff binding, and/or be old) to live up to your expectations when (presumably) you open the top of your scanner and place the textbook on top of the glass and press 'START' to produce a PDF file.

There may be other issues.

Attempting to read a PDF file (even if all else was perfect) on a 6-ince reader is a cheerless job that invites analogy with the idea of extreme torture. You couldn't pay me to do it (I value my sanity and eyesight too much.)

It seems to me that your expectations were unrealistic, to say the least. I admit I could be wrong: I fully realize that some people enjoy torturing themselves by reading PDFs files on itty-bitty ebook readers.