10-07-2014, 04:18 AM | #46 |
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You are unlikely to get much success with an automatic conversion of a scanned PDF. You will have to do lots of manual clean up/conversion yourself.
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What is manual cleanup vs automatic cleanup
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Or perhaps you can refer me to more precise instructions somewhere else on the Web?I couldn't find any. Bottom line, I want to have a fully controllable page layout after converting to EPUB. Thanks Ittiandro |
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You are looking for what is pretty much impossible, fixed layout in an reflowable format. Some machines allow attempts at it.
When the reader presses the increase size button, the formatting will go out the window. PDF is a format that is fixed and will work if laid out for the appropriate size of your device's screen. But it is not a format which is accepted by the major publishing houses for ebooks. Any conversion from PDF as a Optical Character Recognition will have a least an error per page, often many more. Converting PDF to Word doesn't change that. Working from an original Word document which has not been OCR'ed will be much better and is supported by Toxaris's add in as well as Atlantis Word Processor. Even so, if you want fixed layout in epubs you are padding with a spoon upstream. |
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Print the PDF, with the pages by your computer keyboard, start typing. You will have to copy the graphics though.
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I don't know the best software for doing the OCR. Extract the pages with graphics from the PDF with (say) Adobe Reader as actual image files (e.g. .PNG or .TIFF) and clean them up in your favorite image editing programme (e.g. Photoshop). I'd recommend Sigil for creating/editing the ePub |
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Right on, pdurrant. It is all tricks and no treat, except days or weeks later when done.
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PDF to EPUB conversion does not render non-text areas
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I almost ready to give up! Before that, I might take a last shot with HTML conversion but I don't know what to after it , because my aim is to get an EPUB file. How does an HTML conversion facilitate the EPUB conversion? Thanks Ittiandro |
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The reason why I wanted to use EPUB instead of my current PDF format is that PDF has a fixed white bright page background which puts a strain on my eyes, whereas EPUB Readers such Cool Reader ( my favorite) and FBReader allow to change the page background and have a wider array of settings. Reading in night mode is an option I do not particularly like. Thanks Ittiandro |
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Did you try outputting Abbyy to WORD, instead of ePUB? That will retain images and graphics. Hitch |
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Save To HTML does preserve images and tables also.
BUT you need to go through each page to see how it has analyzed in order to make sure you get complete pictures. It goes a little overboard if it finds text in a graphic. It also doesn't do so well if you have an image that seems to fade out too fast for its liking. But you can tell it where the image boundaries are in these cases and it will pick up the whole thing. You can also do the same for tables, when it has mistaken them. Then Read (recognize) and the output is much better. |
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Hello,
This is what an ePUB looks like after uploading the original PDF to http://ebook.online-convert.com: Before I dive into Caliber… is there a quick, no-brainer way to get a readable ePUB file? Thank you. |
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Please read the thread. The answer is: no. Now, some person will no doubt come along, and say how great using "save as Word" is, from Acrobat Pro, or using this or that, but my business does this very thing, ALL. DAY. LONG. We have NEVER found any shortcut that makes creating an eBook from a PDF easy or simple or short. We do everything by HAND. We typically scan/ocr PDFs; then we do a double-proofing round. This is then saved to a Word file format, .doc or .docx. We then clean up the Word file, export that to HTML, clean up THAT, and then, and only then, do we use the HTML to build and ePUB. That's how it's done. Do you understand why the file looks that way? Hitch |
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Thank you.
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