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Gideon · 02-23-2009, 10:09 PM

So I sent a text to my Kindle via Amazon's email service of a particularly nasty pdf full of words in Sanskrit and Pali and just generally bad OCR work.

I had tried converting it via MobiPocket Creator but it was really just a disaster and would require more effort than it was worth. But I always try to see if Amazon's system will work.

I was very surprised when I got the item on my Kindle and instead of the mangled conversion it was the article, sideways and cut into pieces that could be clearly viewed on my Kindle's screen in a landscape mode.

Quite frankly, it was great. I'm wondering if there is a way to get this result outside of blind chance. Or a way to get something on my own computer to do it.

02-23-2009, 10:09 PM	#1
Gideon Wearer of Pants Posts: 1,050 Karma: 7634 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norman, OK Device: Amazon Kindle DX / iPhone	So that was weird... PDF sideways So I sent a text to my Kindle via Amazon's email service of a particularly nasty pdf full of words in Sanskrit and Pali and just generally bad OCR work. I had tried converting it via MobiPocket Creator but it was really just a disaster and would require more effort than it was worth. But I always try to see if Amazon's system will work. I was very surprised when I got the item on my Kindle and instead of the mangled conversion it was the article, sideways and cut into pieces that could be clearly viewed on my Kindle's screen in a landscape mode. Quite frankly, it was great. I'm wondering if there is a way to get this result outside of blind chance. Or a way to get something on my own computer to do it.