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Originally Posted by dwig
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well i was looking for something more kobo specific, but yes i hadn't thought to search it first, and will check out the link. i also hoped that by posting in a subforum for developers i could yield more complex but better results
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Originally Posted by dwig
there is a wide range of possible entities in .PDFs and each convert with differing issues so each .PDF is its own separate challenge.
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ah, wasn't aware of this, i figured it was only the target e-reader of the conversion that differed much
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
#5) ebook.online-convert.com uses calibre under the hood. An old version
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ah i did suspect that this could be the case, just before trying calibre !
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Originally Posted by frostschutz
converting PDF is to use poppler's pdftohtml -xml which for each line of text gives the coordinates and font properties in the XML metadata; and then write a small script specific to that PDF which turns it into a properly structured document.
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i may have to look into this, it seems .PDF formats are much more widely available than .EPUBs
i recall, when using a friend' kindle for a month, that
amazon have their own PDF conversion tool, that you can use when sending to kindle via e-mail. i was thinking you could setup a jailbroken kindle, and then convert them to .EPUB, if .AZW to .EPUB is an easier conversion ? and then you could even set up a website that allows others to use this method.
but honestly i didn't even test out the conversion from .PDF enough on the kindle, and have never tested .AZW to .EPUB, to vouch whether it's worthwhile, but it'd be nice to have amazon do the work instead
though maybe that would also be calibre underneath !