trouble chopping off margins/ cropping

jessTay · 01-21-2010, 09:05 PM

Hi there,

I recently bought a kindle and have gotten started using it. I wanted to be able to read pdf stories on it or literary articles for school. Unfortunately, the ones I wanted to test this on were horribly scanned in... black spaces around where the book actually was.. two pages to one page of pdf.

Any suggestions for a program I could use? I've tried a couple already. I tried PDFcropper, which worked really well for the first page, but then it would show me the other pages so I could edit them (full problem in sticky pdfcropper thread). I tried papercrop as well and it didn't change my documents at all. I also tried PDFread, which just made my PDFs really pixally and didn't divide them in the right place.

I feel like I'm missing something here. Am I doing everything wrong? Thanks for your help!

frabjous · 01-22-2010, 11:35 PM

If the original scans were horrible, there's not too much you can do, but do try soPDF and perhaps PDFLRF--through that would generate a Sony LRF, though you could convert it to mobi in calibre afterwards.

01-21-2010, 09:05 PM	#1
jessTay Connoisseur Posts: 70 Karma: 28 Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Greater Toronto Area, ON, CANADA Device: Kindle 2! YAY	trouble chopping off margins/ cropping Hi there, I recently bought a kindle and have gotten started using it. I wanted to be able to read pdf stories on it or literary articles for school. Unfortunately, the ones I wanted to test this on were horribly scanned in... black spaces around where the book actually was.. two pages to one page of pdf. Any suggestions for a program I could use? I've tried a couple already. I tried PDFcropper, which worked really well for the first page, but then it would show me the other pages so I could edit them (full problem in sticky pdfcropper thread). I tried papercrop as well and it didn't change my documents at all. I also tried PDFread, which just made my PDFs really pixally and didn't divide them in the right place. I feel like I'm missing something here. Am I doing everything wrong? Thanks for your help!

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01-22-2010, 11:35 PM	#2
frabjous Wizard Posts: 1,213 Karma: 12890 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Device: Sony PRS-505	If the original scans were horrible, there's not too much you can do, but do try soPDF and perhaps PDFLRF--through that would generate a Sony LRF, though you could convert it to mobi in calibre afterwards.

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