Thread: PDF to Kindle: The unobtainable Holy Grail of ebooks
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Old 10-18-2011, 05:41 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by tentimes View Post
Well I tried pdfmasher and it is doing a good job of extracting the text - I would love to know how it does it.

It's just that I have spent so much money on pdf books and I am determined that I am not paying for them again.

My best solution to date now is to use pdfmasher or bliss and send to amazon for convert.

I am sure that someone will complete the next step and write a program to do a proper conversion, with a bit of AI logic. The sooner the better for all of us who bought technical books on pdf
I was playing around with PDfmasher as well and it's fairly cool. Very easy to remove headers and footers but I was having issues getting footnotes to work.
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