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DavidJD · 10-03-2009, 02:36 PM

I've been using Calibre for a while to convert files to Mobi format for my Kindle 2, and have had pretty good luck so far with PDF files. But just now I used Calibre 0.6.13 to convert a text-based PDF file, and the output was mostly a Document Outline containing a long list of BMP files (but not the text).

I assume the PDF is text based because I can select text in a PDF reader and copy and paste it to a text editor; it is a rather large file, though, and the table of contents is the same list of BMP files.

What am I missing here? Is the PDF reader (Foxit Reader) doing OCR on the fly? Does Calibre not do that?

10-03-2009, 02:36 PM	#1
DavidJD Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: Kindle2	PDF to Mobi conversion problem I've been using Calibre for a while to convert files to Mobi format for my Kindle 2, and have had pretty good luck so far with PDF files. But just now I used Calibre 0.6.13 to convert a text-based PDF file, and the output was mostly a Document Outline containing a long list of BMP files (but not the text). I assume the PDF is text based because I can select text in a PDF reader and copy and paste it to a text editor; it is a rather large file, though, and the table of contents is the same list of BMP files. What am I missing here? Is the PDF reader (Foxit Reader) doing OCR on the fly? Does Calibre not do that?