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Originally Posted by webroot
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PDFs are still the best for paper printing but now they are in decline. Other than printing they seem to have little usefulness. It awful when I try to read books on mobile devices scroll every-line and zoom. They contain just drawing instructions, totally incompatible with other formats, text selection or search not easily possible. Some items like Tables and list do not export to other format at all.
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Get your non-searchable 500-600 page pdf into an Adobe Acrobat (using Clearscan) or Abbyy Finereader and after an hour or two you will have a lot smaller, searchable pdf file.
I can easily search, select, annotate, scribble etc. pdfs and also easily read A5 pdf on 6" screen in landscape (margins cropped, two or three screens per page) or A4 multi-column pdf using multi-column mode.
When using Adobes's Clearscan, pdf files are also pretty small e.g. 500 page scanned A5 book without pictures should take about 10 MB and can be quickly flipped through on any average 6" reader.
I would never spend days proofreading ocr-ed text for epubs, because I can get small sized, searchable, 100% exact image of scanned book for about hour or two of a computer time only, and then easily read/scribble/search/annotate those A5 books on my 6" reader whenever I want, because usually I would use iPad or Kindle DX (no need for margin cropping or zooming even for A4 one-column books).
I wouldn't mind using fixed epub/mobi instead though, if it would allow me to quickly get a small sized, searchable, exact image of the scanned material, with virtually no effort on my part.