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Originally Posted by ittiandro
Let me join the conversation and see if somebody can get me off the hook.
I have a D2-912 tablet. I have no problems in reading "regular" PDF and EPUB books with a variety of e-readers. I have however a series of ( scanned, I guess?) PDF books which are next to impossible to handle: most of the e-readers I tried take ages to open them. I converted them to E-Pub. Lot better! However the pages and characters in EPUB format are a bit small. I can live with it for Roman fonts, but part of the text are in Greek characters and it would help to be able to control the font size and the page lay-out, like with the PDF, but unfortunately the EPub conversion from the original scanned PDF does not allow ANY control. THe page is there, but looks like an image: fixed fonts, fixed margins. I can only change the backround color , i.e. the margins outside the page proper.
I heard about OCR and converting the original scanned PDF to text or HTML, edit and then re-convert to regular E-PUB, which should by then be controllable like a regular EPUB. Aside from the hassle of double-converting a ton of books, it all sounds very esoteric.
Any suggestions?
THanks
Ittiandro
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We can use k2pdfopt app to adjust any pdf for any e-ink or lcd screen out there (relatively quickly and easily).
http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/
e.g. if it takes 3-5 seconds to turn the pdf page on our tablet or e-ink, it is probably due to the pdf compression method used or big page size (that would require more memory or faster processor).
Transforming such pdf using default settings in k2pdfopt will allow our tablet or e-ink to turn pdf pages in a second again.
As an answer to the original question; which ereader can read scanned pdf like this?
Kindle DX can easily and quickly read those double sided scannes, using installed kindlepdfviewer thereon and adjusting the horizontal scroll to maximum (two joystick pushes per double page) or using two-column mode.
But it is really matter of minutes or seconds for cutting those double sided scannes into a single page pdf, using Briss, Pdfscissors, k2pdfopt, Acrobat etc. and additional 20-30 minutes per the average book for quick OCR-ing (exact pdf image) in Acrobat, Abbyy Finereader etc. so that we can use dictionary, search function, highlighting and all the pdf zooming options we want.