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Old 09-20-2018, 04:45 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by itimpi View Post
There is probably little you can do. PDF files are notoriously bad at converting to other formats. You are going to get best results by simply loading the PDF file to the Kindle and using the PDF reading capability built into the Kindle.


@Lauriso - that said, if you do want to convert the PDF to a Kindle format it's unlikely that you'll be able to do it in a single step with a single tool.

So, apart from Acrobat, what other tools have you tried to make use of?

If the book is a collection of images, you'll need to apply an OCR tool to extract the text into a more useful format - plain text, docx, markup etc. OCR invariably misreads things e.g. 'modem' for 'modern'; so, you'll have to edit that output probably with a word processor or text editor, before converting it. And conversion may need to be a 2 step process, into ePub for typographical formatting, then into the Kindle format best suited to your particular device (KF8, MOBI, whatever).

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