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Originally Posted by hawhill
A last point about reflowing a PDF: You're a bit wrong on that, as e.g. k2pdfopt is a reflower that is based on optical heuristics and will reflow the PDF on a bitmap basis. No OCR step needed in that case.
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Yes, I was not a bit, but completely wrong. I am sorry —and slightly embarrashed— for my uninformed opinion. I am just going to give it a try right now.
I should have remarked as well that my hypothesis about the problems of the Kindle Paperwhite dealing with PDF's is not based on any deep technical knowledge and, therefore, probably was not worth to have been posted here. I understand that if the problem is as "simple" as you suggest it should/could have been easily solved with a firmware update... And that is sad that it wasn't.
I concede as well that the tone of my message was ranty. I am a frustrated user that strongly disagrees with the idea that PDF files have to be read in tablets and not on e-readers. "Serious" was probably not the best word when what I had in mind was "professional readers" (i.e. academics) people that spend a big amount of time reading and working on what they read, and that feel that their needs are not taken in consideration, probably because they are not enough in number to be profitable, and definitely not because of the technical limitations of the hardware.
So, I think it is a pity that you ignored you ignored that part of my post, because was probably the only *serious* one...
Anyway, sorry if it was a bit off-topic here...