03-10-2009, 10:53 PM | #1 |
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iRex Digital Reader works to view Google Pdfs
Ever since I heard of the Sony reader I have wanted a device to read Google and Internet archive pdfs on. Well it takes a little time, but the DR will do the job on the Google pdfs. As far as internet archive pdfs go, the DR will not view them without some changes. I wish someone who knows more about pdfs then I do would come up with a solution. To get internet archive pdfs to be viewable on the DR involves reprinting the pdf to a pdf which winds up making a 2 or 3 hundred mb file. The DR will then read the file just fine, but what a hassle.
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03-11-2009, 03:18 AM | #2 |
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Google pdfs (and downloads from Google books, a great many rare books there) work fine on the DR, although a they're a little slow and benefit from optimization. IA pdfs also seem to work for me, if you linked to a troublesome pdf, I could take a look.
If a "pdf print" throws out a pdf much larger than the original, its possible that your printer is printing the pdf as a bunch of no-nonsense images, which is why it loads on the DR, albiet slowly. |
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PDFs - Text or Graphics?
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03-29-2009, 02:16 PM | #5 |
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Most Google .pdf files are actually image-only, and do not even include the OCR'ed text. This is ridiculous, considering they have an image-over-text version "online", and allow downloading of text-only formats, but they probably have their reasons. Meanwhile, you can view the pdf files on the DR (slow, because they're giant images), but if you want to do a full text search you'll have to run them by Adobe Professional or ABBYY's Finereader.
Theoretically, an OCR software should be able to take a .txt file and match it to an image-only pdf making it an OCR'ed pdf (without the mistakes of an automatic OCR), but I don't know any that does that. |
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