Thread: Specific problem converting pdf to mobi
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Old 02-05-2016, 02:42 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by dwig View Post
This may not be the result of something Abbyy did but instead something that was done by the application that created the PDF (one of the many many reasons why PDF is a horrid source for ebook conversion). The app that created the PDF my have reacted to some layout difficulty (text over top of a picture, ...) by rasterizing the text with the picture. This leaves no text, per se, in the PDF and if Abbyy can't distinguish the text component as separate from the image portion it simply ends up with a picture.
Yes, ^^, exactly. I should have pointed that out, too. Happens a LOT, particularly with older books, for some reason.

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