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kacir · 09-23-2011, 03:52 AM

If you have few texts you wish to use on your reader for reference I strongly recommend to use OCR program to parse pdf file and create rtf document. Then you can convert that rtf to epub or whatever format that you reader can display with formatting and reflow.

Readiris OCR (that we got "free" with a multifunction HP printer/scanner/copier/fax combo machine) works great converting pdf files to text. Of course Fine Reader - considered by many to be the best OCR commercially available to casual user - works well too.

I have tried all [freely available] Linux solutions out there. Most of those you have to use in concert with Ghost Script or Image Magick that will parse pdfs to plain bitmaps that those not-very-mature OCR solutions require. The results were *very* disappointing.

09-23-2011, 03:52 AM	#4
kacir Wizard Posts: 3,463 Karma: 10684861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	One more thing ... If you have few texts you wish to use on your reader for reference I strongly recommend to use OCR program to parse pdf file and create rtf document. Then you can convert that rtf to epub or whatever format that you reader can display with formatting and reflow. Readiris OCR (that we got "free" with a multifunction HP printer/scanner/copier/fax combo machine) works great converting pdf files to text. Of course Fine Reader - considered by many to be the best OCR commercially available to casual user - works well too. I have tried all [freely available] Linux solutions out there. Most of those you have to use in concert with Ghost Script or Image Magick that will parse pdfs to plain bitmaps that those not-very-mature OCR solutions require. The results were very disappointing.