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Originally Posted by ringerc
For all those requesting PDF reflow: It's a nightmare; nearly impossible for many PDFs. It's only practical for PDFs that contain "article" metadata that maps text flows, which is almost none of them. Most PDFs don't retain information about the logical flow of text, making conversion of PDF to text difficult and painful, especially in PDFs with columns, breakouts, headers and footers, etc. Reflow would be even worse.
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If you want to reflow a PDF, convert it to plain text or HTML (if you can) then use Calibre to produce an ePub version.
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I'm only an end-user and I don't want to claim that reflow is the panacea of all PDF-related ills, but using an ereader with reflow isn't that bad at all in my experience. It's reasonable to say that PDFs with complex layouts will suck, but my experience with
novels in PDF format, such as library ebooks, is that reflow works very well.
I still prefer books in EPUB format if at all possible, but sometimes choices are limited and I'm pleasantly surprised by how readable reflowed PDFs are.