Thread: k2pdfopt: optimizes PDFs for viewing on e-readers
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Old 03-08-2020, 01:00 AM   #1752
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Originally Posted by willus View Post
I agree 100%. It does seem silly. But k2pdfopt is not the right app to reflow text from a "native" / non-scanned PDF. At its core, k2pdfopt is an image processing program, and it simply rearranges "crop boxes" from the source PDF into new positions. If those crop boxes are large--one or two per page--it can spit out a converted PDF by simply adding a few cropping instructions into the source PDF file--effectively telling it to display its contents in a modified way. But if those crop boxes are numerous and small--i.e. one for each word or row of text, which is how k2pdfopt does reflow--then this method doesn't work well. The resultant PDF won't display well in most readers. It's better to bitmap it.

If you have access to MS Word, I recommend you try loading your PDF into Word. See my PDF conversion tips.
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