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Old 04-21-2015, 08:54 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by barryem View Post
If the PDF is made from scans you're correct. Most, but not all, PDF's I've encountered are text and Calibre will convert them just fine.

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The trouble is that even "text" PDFs don't actually contain text - they just contain a sequence of drawing instructions. Calibre tends to lose a great deal of formatting information when converting such PDFs. This may not matter, of course, but a good OCR program like Abbyy FineReader will almost always do a better job (at a price, of course!).
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