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Old 05-09-2008, 10:45 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by jcornel7 View Post
1. I have a library of hundreds of technical Ebooks, however they are all pdf or chm. Is there some way to batch convert them?
Personally, I've had the most success with PDFLRF - https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13135

When doing your conversion it's best to crop out any headers, footers, and page numbers. Unfortunately, that basically has to be done manually. PDFLRF allows you to set some global cropping for this that you can preview, or you can do it beforehand in Adobe Acrobat Professional (which costs money). And then you'll also usually want to allow it to automatically trim any extra whitespace around the edges. For most technical ebooks, you'll want to output it in landscape mode and tweak the thickness to best effect (again, you can preview this). Generally in these forums, people seem to write off PDF viewing in portrait mode.. but there are rare cases where it basically seems okay, at least for my eyes.

If you've got Adobe Acrobat Professional, then I suppose there are cases where it'd be in your interest to let it clean up any rough edges or background gray (so that the conversion software can do a better job of automatic cropping). I think further manual effort beyond that is not worthwhile unless it's something you can share with others (try to be satisfied with it being imperfect - it's okay).

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