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Old 05-06-2012, 10:45 AM   #1
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Some books simply dont convert :(
i experience the same problem for some time now and i dont know what to search for in the forum so if its posted before i am sorry in advance.

this picture shows the problem i have,i try to convert a pdf to epub and it takes a really long time.i dont change any options in the conversion.i just press the convert button.options are the default ones
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Old 05-06-2012, 11:50 AM   #2
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i experience the same problem for some time now and i dont know what to search for in the forum so if its posted before i am sorry in advance.

this picture shows the problem i have,i try to convert a pdf to epub and it takes a really long time.i dont change any options in the conversion.i just press the convert button.options are the default ones
Probably a scanned PDF - in this case you need a different software for conversion. For example ABBYY Finereader.
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i experience the same problem for some time now and i dont know what to search for in the forum so if its posted before i am sorry in advance.

this picture shows the problem i have,i try to convert a pdf to epub and it takes a really long time.i dont change any options in the conversion.i just press the convert button.options are the default ones
Probably a scanned PDF or picture PDF- in this case you need a different software for conversion. For example ABBYY Finereader.
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Old 05-06-2012, 12:49 PM   #4
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Old 05-07-2012, 02:24 AM   #5
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Probably a scanned PDF or picture PDF- in this case you need a different software for conversion. For example ABBYY Finereader.
i will try and get back to yo friend to see what happent.do i need to post more info?

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yep buddy but it didnt say anything.Or i didnt understand the part that said it as english is not my first language


thank you both will try that abby thingy and post what happens,hope it helps
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i experience the same problem for some time now and i dont know what to search for in the forum so if its posted before i am sorry in advance.

this picture shows the problem i have,i try to convert a pdf to epub and it takes a really long time.i dont change any options in the conversion.i just press the convert button.options are the default ones
That is not a long time.
12 HOURS is getting there.
24 Hours is a long time, but if it is still running.. Let it go until finished or crashes.

All you are doing is starting over before it gets done.
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i used the abbyy program and while it did make the pdf an epub file,the errors where so many that it was pointless to fix them

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That is not a long time.
12 HOURS is getting there.
24 Hours is a long time, but if it is still running.. Let it go until finished or crashes.

All you are doing is starting over before it gets done.
so i should let it run for 12 hours??its not like i have 286 processor.
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i used the abbyy program and while it did make the pdf an epub file,the errors where so many that it was pointless to fix them



so i should let it run for 12 hours??its not like i have 286 processor.
Let it run till it crashes or finishes.
It is the crappy/complex encoding of the source that eats gobs of cycles.
PDF is bad. Some PDF are horrid

a 286 won't run Calibre
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