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darda · 11-06-2013, 04:18 PM

Thanks EbokJunkie, what a comprehensive post.

I am very happy to know look ups work with 3rd type pdfs, as I have some of those. Thanks!

I do, however, have the bulk of my pdfs in the notorious 1st type pdf, all OCR attempts where to no avail, these are very old "picture-scanned" books. No text search whatsoever, any attempt to OCR them failed.

Unfortunately I have quite a lot in that format.
I would be VERY HAPPY to find some software that would be able to OCR them, but as mentioned I've tried a few to no fruition.

As I'm skeptical about finding a software like that, I just want to know if on a very basic level would I be able to bring up the dictionary from inside a PDF (1st type), and type in the word manually, even if look ups per se are disabled.

I'd be very grateful if any KNT owner can confirm that I can do that.

Thank you very very much.

11-06-2013, 04:18 PM	#14
darda Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2013 Device: Kindle 4NT	Thanks EbokJunkie, what a comprehensive post. I am very happy to know look ups work with 3rd type pdfs, as I have some of those. Thanks! I do, however, have the bulk of my pdfs in the notorious 1st type pdf, all OCR attempts where to no avail, these are very old "picture-scanned" books. No text search whatsoever, any attempt to OCR them failed. Unfortunately I have quite a lot in that format. I would be VERY HAPPY to find some software that would be able to OCR them, but as mentioned I've tried a few to no fruition. As I'm skeptical about finding a software like that, I just want to know if on a very basic level would I be able to bring up the dictionary from inside a PDF (1st type), and type in the word manually, even if look ups per se are disabled. I'd be very grateful if any KNT owner can confirm that I can do that. Thank you very very much.