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Originally Posted by nickq
Is there any particular reason it was in 2-column mode rather than default mode though?
I have to admit that I don't completely understand the reasoning behind all of the settings specified the way they were, but it works, so they're saved under "High Tolerance," and I'll look them over again once I have more time.
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2-column mode uses native output and puts a block of each column onto each output page without re-flowing the text, which is usually the best way to go if you don't need text re-flow--it retains the source file's text, scaleability, and size. My only caution against saving those settings is that the margin crop settings were very specific to that one document. The options that resulted in the "high tolerance" were really the
-gtc and
-crgh options.
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Originally Posted by nickq
Is there a way to generate decent .epub files from .pdf's via k2 -> calibre? With "Re-flow Text," Calibre doesn't seem to detect the Text as all and seems to treat all of the pages as images. (bitmaps?)
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I'm sure this depends on the specific type of source document. Are you referring to the one that you sent to me? For that one, I'd try the settings I recommended above, except remove the "-mode 2col". That will put out a bitmap with an invisible text layer (the text being copied from the source file's OCR layer) for each k2pdfopt output page, and only that text will be on the output page (no cropping directive used on the source file), so it should convert better in calibre--no repeated words or paragraphs, though I don't use calibre much, so I can't say for sure.