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Originally Posted by norweger
That's great. Thanks. Can you get the last step to run smoothly as well, from pdf to epub?
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In the case of non-scanned material i.e. original textual(vector) pdf file like this one, conversion to epub should not pose a problem, depending on the tool we use.
Here I used Abbyy 11 to quickly convert cropped animalfarm pdf to epub.
Personally, I always use pdf optimization only, without conversion to epub, because I want the 100% exactness(at recognition and formating) for every sign, what is impossible to achieve automatically and quickly with epub (for the scanned material) because it reflows imperfect OCR text layer only (not pdf image itself), so I'd use reflowed pdf (with k2pdfopt) if letters were to small for comfortable reading on 6" screen.
A5 sized pdf and 2-column A4 pdfs pose no problem even for 6" screen after cropping, so it's usually only one column A4 pdf that should be reflowed for reading on 6" reader in landscape (2 or 3 screens per pdf page).
k2pdfopt app reflows pdf image itself, not just the imperfect OCR layer behind the image, it also retains pictures and tables unlike pdf reflow in e-readers and is usually a lot faster to flip through because e-reader's processor doesn't have to compute reflowing itself but just to show already reflowed page.