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kacir · 02-21-2008, 05:55 AM

Only the first book is complicated.
Once you have the tools installed, and you know what bitmap export the pdf to, then it is about 3 minutes of your work per book. The conversion, of course might need more than 5 minutes of *computer* time, but you can do something else in the meanwhile. Like check mobileread.com to see what is new, or, even better, read some book ;-)

EDIT:
this also works for tables and other text with much more complicated layout than just standard multi column prose.
I have once extracted a complicated, man pages spanning table from the pdf this way.

02-21-2008, 05:55 AM	#5
kacir Wizard Posts: 3,463 Karma: 10684861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	Only the first book is complicated. Once you have the tools installed, and you know what bitmap export the pdf to, then it is about 3 minutes of your work per book. The conversion, of course might need more than 5 minutes of computer time, but you can do something else in the meanwhile. Like check mobileread.com to see what is new, or, even better, read some book ;-) EDIT: this also works for tables and other text with much more complicated layout than just standard multi column prose. I have once extracted a complicated, man pages spanning table from the pdf this way. Last edited by kacir; 02-21-2008 at 05:58 AM.