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Old 09-18-2010, 12:48 PM   #27
Vitel
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: E.Europe
Device: Kindle 3 (broken), Sony PRS-T1, Kindle Fire, Kindle 4 Black
Hi everyone!
This is my first post here and I will get straight to the point.
As a soon-to-be Kindle owner (first time) I am also very curious about the possibility to read complex pdfs on a 6" device. I was seriously considering buying a 9-inch DX, because most of my texts are tech docs, etc. but suddenly remembered that I am a sofware developer and maybe I can find a workaround.
First of all I reviewed the existing conversion sofware and was disappointed to find no good program to reflow technical pdfs. So I decided to create my own piece of software for that purpose. I have some preliminary results, but it's a lot of hard work and I also have a job and it is difficult to split my time between these projects.
There are a lot of things that have to be done like region, line, and word detection, de-hyphenation, picture detection and resizing, stripping column titles, etc. Not to mention rebuilding output pages. However, roughly half of those have been solved and the results are quite promising. The output is all graphical, so footnotes and search won't work, but at least you will be able to read something with normal sized font (hopefully).
I am expecting my Kindle 3 to arrive next week and I will continue to work on that little program if nothing interferes.
If you have samples of pdfs or pages, please post some (links) here so that I can feed it into my proggy and see how it handles them.

Last edited by Vitel; 09-18-2010 at 12:52 PM.
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