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fjtorres · 01-18-2015, 05:25 PM

PDFs are a plague upon e-reading humanity.
They are roach motels for information:good stuff goes in, nothing comes out.
PDF was not intended as an ebook format originally but rather as digital paper for archival use.

Some pdfs are little more than a bunch of image files of scanned pages so it might be that those images got reduced in size during the conversion process. Doing a halfway decent conversion of those kinds of pdf files usually requires professional OCR software like Abbey or Nuance.

Best suggestion is dig out the original pdf and load it into REPLIGO or some other pdf reader app for Android. That will let you read it about as good as it gets.

01-18-2015, 05:25 PM	#2
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	PDFs are a plague upon e-reading humanity. They are roach motels for information:good stuff goes in, nothing comes out. PDF was not intended as an ebook format originally but rather as digital paper for archival use. Some pdfs are little more than a bunch of image files of scanned pages so it might be that those images got reduced in size during the conversion process. Doing a halfway decent conversion of those kinds of pdf files usually requires professional OCR software like Abbey or Nuance. Best suggestion is dig out the original pdf and load it into REPLIGO or some other pdf reader app for Android. That will let you read it about as good as it gets. Last edited by fjtorres; 01-18-2015 at 05:28 PM.