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Originally Posted by HJ99
So I figured out way to use a freeware automatic screenshotter run in WINE combined with my own small linux script and couple linux programs to first auto advance pages on kindle app which forces the screen shotter to take lowest resolution png snapshot of that page only not whole screen. I set the app to take shot anytime pixels significantly change. Your screen clock advancing will not trigger a shot... whereas the Kindle app advancing to next page will. When done, yea you can just leave them in a directory and read with an image viewer (nomacs works great and has auto advance slideshow function), or you can combine the png snapshots into a pdf using Image Magick on linux.
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FYI, there is a file format that is meant for this stuff (pages that are images with a searchable textual layer: intended for archival of electronic copies of paper books by people like the Internet Archive who do a massive amount of archival work of this sort). Look for 'DjVu'. It's *massively* more space-efficient than storing individual pages in a PDF.