k2pdfopt: optimizes PDFs for viewing on e-readers

[nmyshkin]

Originally Posted by willus

This CPU came out in 2013. It has a Geekbench 6 score of 170 (single threaded). Kudos to you for getting that much mileage out of your computer but wow that is a low score. Modern CPUs are 20x faster single threaded and 100x faster multithreaded. You might really enjoy a newer system.

It will have to happen someday, but the thought of decrapifying yet another bloatware multimedia extravaganza until it's actually a functional computer again is not that appealing at my age. Speed would be nice when working on a dictionary database or re-encoding a video file, I admit. But speed is not everything.

[willus]

Amen to the decrapifying, though I don't think it will be quite as bad as you might think. Just uninstall, uninstall, uninstall.

[dhdurgee]

I have used k2pdfopt to convert a PDF file for use on my PW4. I used the -ocr option with it as the original PDF did not include any text for searching.

I am now wondering if it would be possible to extract the ocr text from the k2pdfopt output file and use it as the starting point to create a text version of the file to create an azw3 file.

Is this possible with k2pdfopt or another pdf tool?

Dave

[willus]

Originally Posted by dhdurgee

I am now wondering if it would be possible to extract the ocr text from the k2pdfopt output file and use it as the starting point to create a text version of the file to create an azw3 file.

Is this possible with k2pdfopt or another pdf tool?

You can extract the OCR text in UTF-8 format using the -ocrout <file> option. See the command-line usage. You might take a look at my PDF conversion tips page, though it's a bit stale.

[dhdurgee]

Originally Posted by willus

You can extract the OCR text in UTF-8 format using the -ocrout <file> option. See the command-line usage. You might take a look at my PDF conversion tips page, though it's a bit stale.

I added the -ocrout option and it worked as expected.

Thank you for your assistance.

Dave