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sovre · 11-19-2011, 04:54 PM

I'm curious about how the great looking PDF ebooks I have seen are created. Are all of these done using an ADF? Or is there third party software that can help you get this result with a flatbed scanner, cleaning up your document and making it look more professional?

I use ABBYY Finereader for my scanning. When I scan a book and save it in pdf format I end up with a very rough looking document which I would not want to put on my eReader. Everything is visible: page shadows, slope and bend of scanned pages, page edges.

It seems like if you save in PDF format ABBYY insists on saving the entire page image. Why isn't there a way to just save the "text" part of the page in pdf format? Or is there a way, and I don't know about it?

There are some things I would actually much rather save and read in PDF format because they are too hard to work with and clean up in RTF format, but I wish I knew of a way to make a more presentable looking PDF.

11-19-2011, 04:54 PM	#1
sovre Zealot Posts: 112 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: United States Device: iPad Mini; iPhone; Kindle Paperwhite (10th gen)	great looking pdf ebooks? I'm curious about how the great looking PDF ebooks I have seen are created. Are all of these done using an ADF? Or is there third party software that can help you get this result with a flatbed scanner, cleaning up your document and making it look more professional? I use ABBYY Finereader for my scanning. When I scan a book and save it in pdf format I end up with a very rough looking document which I would not want to put on my eReader. Everything is visible: page shadows, slope and bend of scanned pages, page edges. It seems like if you save in PDF format ABBYY insists on saving the entire page image. Why isn't there a way to just save the "text" part of the page in pdf format? Or is there a way, and I don't know about it? There are some things I would actually much rather save and read in PDF format because they are too hard to work with and clean up in RTF format, but I wish I knew of a way to make a more presentable looking PDF. Last edited by sovre; 11-19-2011 at 05:01 PM.