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Originally Posted by jimbobleeharry
Hi all, can someone please tell me a program that can convert PDF to AZW3 or something I can read on a Kindle and make use of the vocabulary builder?
I am a teacher and inherited a plethora of PDF's in my time served, but find them to strenuous to read on a bright screen.
I have tried emailing them to my Kindle email address and using Calibre with all the plugins recommended.
The text I end up receiving is full of linebreak errors, random letter spamming
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and completely missing tables/ diagrams.
Please help if you can, paying for the program is not an issue if it makes textbooks accessible on my Kindle.
P.S. I know PDF's are not for Ebook reading and a pain in the bum to covert - I still want it!
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As the others have said, what you see from the Kindle IS what comes out of automated PDF-2-eBook/HTML conversion. There's nothing unique about the horribleness of it.
You can DIY in various ways. You can try
- copy-paste into Word, turn on the invisible formatting codes, manually fix all of that, and then convert the Word file;
- Export the PDF to Word, using Adobe Acrobat and then, turn on the invisible formatting codes, manually fix all of that, and then convert the Word file;
- You can use AbbyyFineReader, or another OCR program, run it, fix the red words/phrases and when that's done, save the Word file. Then, turn on the invisible formatting codes, manually fix all of that, and then convert the Word file;
Or, any combination of these, or any other "magic" conversion method, but do you see how all of them end, once you have the file in text format? That's the reality. There's no shortcut. Believe me, every formatted on the planet wishes that there were one, but there isn't.
Sorry. Perhaps it would be easier to just buy the books in MOBI format in the first place, if they are available?
Hitch