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Old 07-12-2013, 01:06 PM   #11
tomsem
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Originally Posted by Zistmo View Post
I have a Kindle Paperwhite and a big collection of scanned pdfs. My experience is bad most in most of the cases and I would never recommend the Paperwhite to someone that wants to use scanned pdf files.
Just an observation: K4 and prior used Adobe RMSDK to render PDF. Kindle Touch and Paperwhite do not (maybe it is some PDF library from FoxIt which Amazon has a stake in). So there are going to be a lot of differences. For my PDF requirements, Touch and Paperwhite have much better PDF support (for example, PDF bookmark and hyperlink support).

Scanned PDFs are a headache, chew up a lot of storage, and are not accessible (no text search etc) so I would OCR them at the least if I wanted to put them on my Kindle.

Also I find that increasing the contrast a notch can make text more readable most of the time. That's an option for K3 and later I believe.

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