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Originally Posted by Bookchin
So a non-page scanned PDF is just any PDF that was originally a document in a different file type that got converted? I guess that makes sense.
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Again, that oversimplifies it a bit, but that is broadly correct.
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Originally Posted by Bookchin
Related to this: If I wanted to scan an academic book I owned that has text graphics and photos, and I wanted to preserve the page formatting and numbering, should I output it in a PDF file, or could I possibly do it as an epub file? It would be nice to have academic books that can reflow in epub. Also, is epub the only file type that reflows?
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An OCR'd or converted PDF is in theory reflowable. Once you start adding graphics and photos that makes reflow problematic (since they can't easily be reflowed). Epub is designed for reflow so obviously it would be the preferred format, but realistically turning an academic book into epub will be challenging (and it won't be possible to keep the page formatting and page numbering). PDF is designed to keep formatting etc the way it was originally designed which makes it less than ideal for reflow.