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Originally Posted by BlackVoid
USE BOOKDESIGNER instead of Calibre. Calibre is a horrible tool to convert PDFs. BookDesigner makes decent conversions.
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I have had variable results with Book Designer and PDFs. Sometimes it will make a very good conversion; other times it will either be hopeless, or will fail to convert at all. I suspect that you may have been lucky in your choice of PDF document.
I believe that this variability is because some PDF's originated as documents that were subsequently converted to PDF. Either Book Designer or Calibre will handle them quite well.
But neither will work well with scanned paper books, for the reasons that HarryT gives.
Moreover, I think that you are being rather unfair to the developer of Calibre. If you want OCR then you need to get an OCR program. ABBYY Finereader or Omnipage will do the job, but don't come cheap.