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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
There was a proof stage somewhere between the ocr garbage and the final glyphs that were positioned on the screen.
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The final product (glyphs positioned on the screen with some sort of coordinate system) was utterly unusable for searching or conversion to other formats.
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So a nice idea in theory that in practice was fairly rubbish. No wonder it's gone.
I looked to see on my cloned 2002 laptop to a VM if I'd ever had an early "Kindle Converter for PC" as that allegedly originally could make Topaz format. I didn't, but there was Mobi Creator and a Kindle Kids Creator. So I looked on my server archive of Win Install and there was a KindleForPC-installer-1.21.48017.exe and I tried it, but nothing happened after installer loader reached 100%. So I looked online and the oldest to quickly find was kindle-for-pc-1.2.1.30427.exe though it wanted Windows Messenger 5.1 (!). It didn't work either. Curiously it wanted to load a web page to Deregister the Kindle at uninstall!
The first Kindle came out 2007 / 2008 (not many in 2007 I think) and Vista arrived in 2007. I'd have imagined an early "Kindle Converter for PC" would have run on XP as the much later Kindle Kids thing did. I still have some real XP stuff somewhere, but I think I've lost interest.
I imagine converting Topaz to anything other than an image based PDF gives results like Archive Org's epub / mobi / azw3 on the fly from their unproofed OCR layers on their PDFs. Really only their PDFs are readable.
Maybe the only remaining use for a DXG is Topaz?