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Rizla · 03-04-2016, 11:35 AM

1) The best converter I've found is Abbyy FineReader (for both OCR and text-based PDFs).

Unfortunately PDF conversion often leaves a lot of unwanted carriage returns / newlines and incomplete lines dangling. Does anyone know of a program to fix this? It's a drag doing it manually via regex in an editor. Calibre sort of does it, with mixed results (maybe I just haven't mastered it.)

2) Another option is to reformat the PDF for a 6" screen using k2pdfopt:
http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/
It's a pretty amazing program.

3) Honorable mention goes to Koreader, though I find it doesn't work with all PDFs.

03-04-2016, 11:35 AM	#15
Rizla Member Retired Posts: 3,183 Karma: 11721895 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Nook STR (rooted) & Sony T2	1) The best converter I've found is Abbyy FineReader (for both OCR and text-based PDFs). Unfortunately PDF conversion often leaves a lot of unwanted carriage returns / newlines and incomplete lines dangling. Does anyone know of a program to fix this? It's a drag doing it manually via regex in an editor. Calibre sort of does it, with mixed results (maybe I just haven't mastered it.) 2) Another option is to reformat the PDF for a 6" screen using k2pdfopt: http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ It's a pretty amazing program. 3) Honorable mention goes to Koreader, though I find it doesn't work with all PDFs.