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Old 01-08-2017, 11:42 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by helixpteron View Post
I tried calibre, Acrobat Pro with Calibre, Wondershare PDF converter and Aiseesoft Converter.

The only software I found to do this reliably was the Aiseesoft PDF Converter and I stopped looking for another solution, as this simply did the trick for what I needed...
This is certainly an inexpensive solution. I quickly tried Aiseesoft with a couple of my favorite benchmark PDFs and it did the scanned book well (just a couple mistakes with the OCR) but not very well with the two-column PDF--it lost the table and a lot of the text was missing or not formatted correctly. This is admittedly a hard PDF, but MS Word (Office 365 version) does a very good job with it--faithfully retaining its layout. MS Word does not save directly to epub, though. You still have to get it to epub format. See attachments (epubs created by Aiseesoft).
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File Type: pdf milne.pdf (1.47 MB, 432 views)
File Type: epub milne.epub (70.5 KB, 406 views)
File Type: pdf ieee.pdf (154.0 KB, 396 views)
File Type: epub ieee.epub (43.3 KB, 391 views)
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