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Originally Posted by dwig
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Originally Posted by MarjaE
Many academic articles are published as two-column pdfs that are a pain and a half on small screens.
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So are there good tools to batch-convert two-column pdfs to more readable formats? Without ocr errors everywhere?
I use Mac OS X on my computer, and Iriver's version of Linux.
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Simple answer, no such tools exist and it's very unlikely that any will ever be developed. |
How can you say that a described tool doesn't exist? Do you have a complete list of software ever written or something?
Reading journals on a small screen is relatively frequent request.
I personally use softwaer called pdf scissors. It is a small Java script app that works under Windows, Linux or MacOSX.
You cut the article to a series of small cuts - much more readable on a small screen. For example you can cut the left column into 3 pieces and the right one to 3 pieces as well, so pdf scissors will produce 6 "pages" for each processesed page of the multi-page journal.
Also consider using your e-ink reader in landscape. This way even text that is in only one column can become much more readable of you cut away the margins and divide the page into 2-3 landscaep cuts.
Recently I had problem running the pdf scissors software - my browser started to complain that I can't use Java that way ...
So I have downloaded briss. Tehre is even mac version of Briss.