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Originally Posted by BetterRed
crap, there are far more things published in PDF that all the other formats combined - except maybe paper.
Governments, think tanks, universities, quangos, consultancies... issue a more publications that all the 'book publishers' combined - and the majority of them are in PDF.
Then of course there's magazines and journals - where again PDF is the dominant format
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which is ONE reason why e-readers have native support for PDF format , with helpful tools to zoom, flip orientation etc.
I don't get how all your complex image processing is ever going to lead to a better display than the original pdf file, (on he same e-reader screen). unless you OCR all the text & make it reflowable. you can't add clarity that does not exist to begin with- your image can only ever be as-good-as the source, not better.
@eshwartz
"Because PDF is a horrible format that is barely supported -- sure, it will render, but it will look horrible on a 6" screen." But a compressed picture of a PDF page will look even worse, so the OP's approach is deeply flawed