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Thank you, Dale. I'm not sure expert is the word, as I haven't made a dime off of any work on PDFs, unlike Hitch, who is a professional in the field.
Hitch, I think you're super smart and I have no doubt you are good at what you do, but remember that this thread was started by a self-admitted newbie who said they have books in PDF form that they'd like to move to their kindle. Your angle is the "this is how you publish a professional e-book" angle, and your standards are high. This is one view point, and it's great that you share your experience in the field--many of us learn a great deal from it--but it's not necessarily the best solution and certainly not the only solution available to the OP and/or other people who might be reading this thread, so I offered another solution (for PDFs).
Throwing ABBYY Fine Reader at a PDF is great, but I think it's fair to say that it is a niche product (outside the publishing world, anyway) for power users. On the other hand, MS Word is a de-facto standard tool that a lot of people already have and know how to use and don't even realize will read PDF files, which is why I posted. Not only does MS Word read PDF files, it does an amazingly good job (my opinion) of turning them into editable source content, which opens the door to a lot of flexibility in what you then do with that content.
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