04-03-2009, 05:12 PM | #1 |
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RELEASED: Native transcoding of PDFs and epubs on the Kindle2
Savory is my new on-device epub and pdf converter for the Kindle2. You can read about and download it from: http://bit.ly/Zp1ZM
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04-03-2009, 06:41 PM | #2 |
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Good job. Since I use Calibre, I probably won't install it, but this is the sort of thing Amazon should have done to begin with.
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04-04-2009, 06:21 AM | #3 |
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does it convert PDFs to bitmap images or does it actually extract text?
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04-04-2009, 07:09 AM | #4 |
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04-04-2009, 07:17 AM | #5 |
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I realize that - I never use calibre before - hence I'm asking.
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04-04-2009, 07:18 AM | #6 |
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Oh. According to his blog, savory extracts the text but ignores images.
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04-04-2009, 11:26 AM | #7 |
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It uses pdf2html. It will get images that are embedded in the text, but not scanned PDFs
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04-06-2009, 08:35 AM | #8 |
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Hi, Installed Savory (successfully I think) but then nothing happens
How long does the conversion take? Let's say for a small text pdf 50kB and a large, image heavy pdf ~10MB? I moved a big pdf to documents, "undocked" the kindle but it didn't show, so I though maybe the conversion is slow so I docked again, removed that file and put a 50k pdf in the documents folder, undocked again, but no new books in the home screen What info do you need to troubleshoot? |
04-06-2009, 11:17 PM | #9 |
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I'm seeing some weirdnesses with "copy file over USB" -- what happens if you download from the browser?
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04-07-2009, 01:05 PM | #10 | |
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I did find something strange though, none of my system files in the kindle have any filedate... could this cause a problem? How is Savory checking what files are new and to be transcoded? |
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04-07-2009, 03:01 PM | #11 |
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Bjorn - See the posts over on the general kindle forum.
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04-17-2009, 09:18 AM | #12 |
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Hi Jesse,
I don't see any system folder on my kindle 2. Do I have to create it? I recently got my kindle, and can't wait to install savory. |
04-17-2009, 09:28 AM | #13 |
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Never mind, Find out the way to see system folder.
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04-29-2009, 10:47 PM | #14 | |
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Many thanks in advance for your help! |
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04-29-2009, 10:57 PM | #15 |
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Can you please post the real link instead of some redirecting link that hides the original link? I will not click these redirecting links as I have no idea where it's going and sometimes they don't work.
MR supports full links. So there is NO NEED AT ALL to use redirecting tiny links. |
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