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Timmy_B · 11-02-2010, 04:57 PM

First, THANKS for all the great information in this forum!

I’m a new Kindle (K3), Calibre and BookCreator user. I have EXTENSIVE OCR and scanning knowledge.

I’m using MS Word 2007 running on Windows Vista (32-bit) and have begun using the BookCreator template.

As a test, I OCR’d a couple of chapters of an old paperback book on an Epson flatbed scanner, saved them in RTF and imported the file into Word 2007 running the BookCreator DOT.

Although I’m just starting to work through the formatting options in the BookCreator template, I was able to do some basic paragraph and font size formatting. I THOUGHT I removed all the in-paragraph forced CR so that the text would adjust to the Kindle’s standard margins.

I saved the result in RTF and converted the RTF “book” via Calibre. I sent it to my K3 device and it arrived promptly in Mobi.

The text is in an appropriate size but the text remains in a thin column format similar as in the original paperback book.

How can I format my OCR’d text to relieve this margin restriction? Is this an OCR output format, Calibre or Kindle issue?

Also, for Calibre what is the best format to save my Word document? RTF? HTML? Other?

Thanks!
Tim

11-02-2010, 04:57 PM	#1
Timmy_B Member Posts: 18 Karma: 126 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: California, U.S.A. Device: Kindle 3, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 1st gen, iPad 2 (on order)	Question on Margin issues with OCR’d text processed for Kindle First, THANKS for all the great information in this forum! I’m a new Kindle (K3), Calibre and BookCreator user. I have EXTENSIVE OCR and scanning knowledge. I’m using MS Word 2007 running on Windows Vista (32-bit) and have begun using the BookCreator template. As a test, I OCR’d a couple of chapters of an old paperback book on an Epson flatbed scanner, saved them in RTF and imported the file into Word 2007 running the BookCreator DOT. Although I’m just starting to work through the formatting options in the BookCreator template, I was able to do some basic paragraph and font size formatting. I THOUGHT I removed all the in-paragraph forced CR so that the text would adjust to the Kindle’s standard margins. I saved the result in RTF and converted the RTF “book” via Calibre. I sent it to my K3 device and it arrived promptly in Mobi. The text is in an appropriate size but the text remains in a thin column format similar as in the original paperback book. How can I format my OCR’d text to relieve this margin restriction? Is this an OCR output format, Calibre or Kindle issue? Also, for Calibre what is the best format to save my Word document? RTF? HTML? Other? Thanks! Tim