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Originally Posted by Hitch
I, like the others, find myself pretty speechless over the idea that Abbyy did an amazing job converting a PDF to an ePUB. I mean...I work hand-in-hand with a very great fellow, who does world-class scanning/OCR. We send all our querents there, who have printed books in-hand and all that (and image-layer-only PDFs and so on). I've seen what his ePUB exports look like, from Abbyy--and they make me wince. And yet, he's the best and most experienced scanner and Abbyy-user that I know. So...you are either incredibly lucky or you simply want different things from your conversions.
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It sounds to me that you're using Abbyy on modern PDFs that already have a text layer. If you are, I'm honestly not sure why you'd do that. You can export a modern PDF from Acrobat Pro, DC, etc. into Word and then use that Word file to make an ePUB in Calibre, too. Why go to the AbbyyFineReader route, unless you have a PDF that's imaged-only?
Are the footnotes in the PDFs you are scanning already linked, do you know?
Hitch
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I tried to use Adobe a few times, but it was just terrible. With Abbyy 15 I don't have too many issues. Some of the PDFs are older and hand scanned, but the text is being recognized even if it's not in English, and sure the TOC isn't perfect, and some of the headers are not right, but if I am to just immediately send to my Kindle it works and reads great, I don't know what else it's supposed to do.
Honestly, I don't know how to check if it's a modern PDF that has a text layer and if the footnotes are already linked. But I will try to can export with Adobe to Word, and then use Calibre to make an epub, and see how the final result looks.
Thank you!