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Originally Posted by nickq
That's the thing. I'm assuming that removing "-mode 2col" would result in the default mode with re-flowed text? Converting it via Calibre results in the pages being converted into a series of .png images. Can't re-flow or re-scale the text in my e-reader then; and since that seems to be the only point in converting it to .epub in the first place, it seems rather pointless. Then again, it is very likely due to conversion settings I don't understand yet, or tools I don't have yet, since I just started all of this a couple of weeks ago. Not a big problem, since the best solution -- to use k2 to set the .pdf just right for my screen, and run with that -- is not at all a bad one.
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You can turn off re-flow if you want with
-wrap-. Since the columns are so narrow, it doesn't re-flow your particular document by default, though. By default, k2pdfopt will also include an OCR text layer over the bitmaps (the same OCR text in the original source file), which I was thinking calibre would pick up. If calibre just sees the bitmaps, you can turn them off with
-ocrvis t (this will show only the OCR text layer). Or you can just dump the OCR text to a file as UTF-8 text with
-ocrout <filename>, but for your document, cutting and pasting from a PDF viewer (I used Sumatra) to Word actually does a much better job of this--it even correctly navigates the columns.