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Originally Posted by Dellaster
Hi, Phil. Welcome to MobileRead!
The problem, as I understand it, is DRM PDF support. Adobe Digital Editions PDFs don't offer a way to do this so, in order to not be limited to just non-DRM PDFs, device makers do annotation and highlights as a separate layer that's not a part of the actual PDF and which is saved in a separate file. It wouldn't be legal to alter the original DRM PDF. This means it's not portable -- there's no universal standard for such auxiliary files.
Something like that, anyway. If there were no DRM we'd already have a number of devices with such capabilities, I think.
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If the PDF's are not DRM restricted would this still be a factor? I am not really understanding how the DRM is determined (PDF document properties?) and if it is possible to remove the DRM with software?
It seems that many, many people are in the same dilemma as me. We all want a EReader to handle, read, and comment on the thousands of PDF's we have been collecting all these years. Like it or not, PDF's are the current document standard. Is there an easy way to batch-convert PDF's to EPUB format while still keeping the PDF document properties? Does it matter if you have recognized the text in the PDF using the Acrobat OCR recognition?
So far I am still leaning towards the Alex but I'm not buying anything just this moment.
Thanks all,
Phil