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Old 06-09-2010, 08:36 AM   #1
abadguy
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Problem converting pdf to epub (size) using calibre

Hi everyone, I had a pdf ebook made only by images. I converted it into a searchable text pdf using an ocr program called pdf converter professional, a very good program. The original pdf was 8mb, the new pdf is about 18mb. When I try to convert it to epub format using Calibre I get an epub output file of 80+ mb and there's no way I could manage to upload such a big file to my iphone unfortunately (I also tried to convert the 8mb pdf to epub but I still get a big 70mb+ epub file as an output). I haven't figured out yet how to make my output file smaller, do I make some mistake in calibre's settings? Please help me I don't get why the epub is so big after conversion, after all this ebook is just 140 pages..

p.s. if this could help I also converted the file with the ocr program in a .doc format, but since calibre doesn't support .doc I don't know how this could be useful

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