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Old 01-22-2016, 12:00 AM   #49
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
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That is why conversion houses (the one or two good ones) get paid the big bucks. Just ask @Hitch.
Making high-quality EPUB/AZW3 with vector graphics for equations is lots 'n lots 'n lots of work, much harder than scanning a PDF.
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Had a few minutes to take a (technical) look at my commercially converted 'sample' PDF file -

Looks identical (by eyeball anyway).
Recovers fonts (rather than glyph paths).
Inkscape likes the files (Inkscape is a SVG editor).
GIMP has no problems rendering the pages (as bit maps).

But as expected:
Image inserts remain images (bit maps - I.E: no character recognition done).

This last point is significant to our discussion here -
Transation:
If those 'books that can't be processed' are image inserts (I.E: scanned pages) or contain image inserts - not even the (expensive) commercial service I tried can do anything about them.
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