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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
.... I can't gather anything from this PDF. Can you maybe take screenshots of what your Finereader page looks like? Do you have red boxes around the Figures?
And you haven't shown what the EPUB output is either.
Is this the original source? Perhaps you accidentally sent a few pages out of Finereader?
Ouch... I would highly recommend against trying to make an EPUB of a physics book, ESPECIALLY for your first time. There are WAY too many figures, complex equations, sub/superscripts, inline equations, greek/mathematical/weird symbols (that Finereader won't get correct).
It would absolutely take forever, even for someone who knows what they are doing (let me tell you... I wouldn't touch digitizing a physics book with a ten foot pole). :P
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The sample pages I sent you were not from the original PDF scanned book ( I must have lost it) but from a k2PDF OCR conversion.
As you can see from the attached, the non-text items ( drawings, diagrams, etc) are (almost) O.K. with the exception of page 2 where the drawing at the top of the original page is squarely missing. All in all, the conversion is severely flawed because all of the special math characters and symbols of physics are misread and converted into other characters. In addition, the EPUB conversion does not follow the original pagination, spaces and breaks between paragraphs and/or between the drawing explanations and the main text are ignored, etc. Perhaps, as you said, physics texts are beyond recognition by ABBYY or any similar software, however sophisticated it may be.
In view of this I think there is no point in pursuing this matter..
Since I believe , however, that you, like me, are one of those for whom the trip is just as fun as the final destination, even though it may be unreachable, I attach for your information the screenshots of a few sample pages as read by ABBYY as well as their EPUB conversion.
I am embarking now on another conversion job which I thought would be easier, but I am having second thoughts..
I have some PDF ( scanned) books containing Greek texts with the English translation side by side.
Even though it is classic Greek, I thought that ABBYY could read it because the ancient Greek characters are exactly the same as those of modern Greek ( with the exception of a number of accents and diacritic signs which have been dropped in modern Greek) and the language option of ABBYY lists Greek as one of the languages it can read.
Unfortunately, it is not the case: Greek characters ( or something like them!) appear in the conversion, but many of them are missing or distorted beyond recognition, words are jumbled together, etc. All in all, the text is readable with difficulty or plainly unreadable.Perhaps Greek readers have something to say.
Thanks again
Ittiandro