08-16-2012, 07:07 AM | #1 |
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Very big mobi file
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I have a problem converting some pdf: for some reason the resulting mobi is very big (pdf is 6mb, resulting mobi is around 80mb) and when i open in on my kindle touch the font is very little and nothing happens if I try to modify it. They are single column books, some images and nothing so fancy in them... My calibre is version 0.8.64 Last edited by buscon; 08-16-2012 at 07:11 AM. |
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08-17-2012, 10:53 AM | #3 |
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Ok, thank you for your answer.
In attachment there's the pdf i'm trying to convert. It's actually not an image based pdf but text: for some reason calibre cannot understand it as text. Can someone tell me why ? |
08-18-2012, 01:36 AM | #4 | |
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Every page is an image
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Every page is actually an image - not text. Sure, the image shows text, but it is an image. Could be because a paperbook was scanned, every page was saved as an image, instead of using OCR software to do "text recognition" Cheers, Per |
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buscon,
I’m fairly familiar with PDF, but definitely not an expert. If you open “final.PDF” and do a copy/paste into MS Word, you have a page of text that can be edited, spell-checked, searched, saved as a Word document or saved as HTML. So, it behaves like an OCR scan. My conversions to EPUB and MOBI produced the same wide margins and tiny text that you mentioned. However, after converting to EPUB format, I opened the EPUB container and it has PNG files, which is an image file type. So, after conversion it behaves like an IMAGE! It has me stumped, which is easy to do. |
08-19-2012, 06:47 PM | #6 |
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The pdf is the result of an ocr conversion done with acrobat pro.
What should I do to obtain a pdf with text and not images ? |
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