Thread: Correction of auto layout
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Old 07-31-2014, 07:34 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by R71986 View Post
I think I understand what is going wrong with my epub conversion from pdf. It is the underlying text. It is very poor. It looks as if the pdf has been run through an OCR program and no corrections were done on it. I tried copying and pasting some of the text in the original pdf and although it looked ok on the graphic the text came out exactly as picked up by calibre!

Thanks for the pdf conversion ref.

R
There is probably an image layer which you can extract and run through OCR. There are some very good OCR programs, which are of course only worth the cost if you do this a lot -- like Abbyy FineReader.
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