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The problem is that many PDF's are simply a bunch of scanned images. And these can't be readily converted to any text based format. The exception is to put the
by Johnythree 4y ago
The problem is that many PDF's are simply a bunch of scanned images. And these can't be readily converted to any text based format.
The exception is to put the PDF through an OCR process, but this destroys the formatting and can't deal with images. The whole point of my scanning these old books was to keep the historical information.
I have hundreds of old books I have scanned and converted to PDF, but I cant read these on a Kindle.
- freedomben 4y agowhat did you use to scan them? did you have to remove the binding?
- Johnythree 4y agoI have various book scanners. eg a Plustek Optibook 3600 which has done an incredible amount of work. Plus I've built a dual camera book scanner similar to https://www.diybookscanner.org/ https://www.diybookscanner.org/ And where necessary I have access to commercial high-speed duplex scanners which do require that the spine be cut. OK for old magazines, etc.