Re: Converting pdfs to mobi

2014-01-27 Thread poma
On 27.01.2014 15:01, Tom Horsley wrote: > I remember seeing an OCR program once that would accept pdf files, > so it didn't need to recognize characters, but it still applied > all the OCR layout recognition algorithms to try and detect > the "proper" way to treat the document. I suspect calibre i

Re: Converting pdfs to mobi

2014-01-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:41:09 -0500 (EST) Max Pyziur wrote: > In general, calibre's conversion of pdfs is less robust than Amazon's. By > "jumbles," I mean that certain documents have things such as footnotes, or > endnotes; some have anchors. In Amazon's case, more often,these seem to be > hand

Re: Converting pdfs to mobi

2014-01-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: >> On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 19:09 -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: >>> >>> However, I just tested converting the same document (pdf->mobi) using >>> both calibre and Amazon's Kindle service. The results are far better >>> from Amazon. Calibre's ebook-convert

Re: Converting pdfs to mobi

2014-01-27 Thread Max Pyziur
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 19:09 -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: However, I just tested converting the same document (pdf->mobi) using both calibre and Amazon's Kindle service. The results are far better from Amazon. Calibre's ebook-convert jumbles the output

Re: Converting pdfs to mobi

2014-01-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 19:09 -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: > However, I just tested converting the same document (pdf->mobi) using > both calibre and Amazon's Kindle service. The results are far better > from Amazon. Calibre's ebook-convert jumbles the output. > Depending on what you mean by "jumbles",

Re: Converting pdfs to mobi

2014-01-26 Thread Max Pyziur
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: As a followup, are there tools that can convert pdfs to mobi format? Amazon, as part of its Kindle service, does provide a pdf to azw (Amazon's version of mobi) conversion service: - email the

Re: Converting pdfs to mobi

2014-01-26 Thread Franklin McCormick
On 26/01/14 06:38 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:04:29PM -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Much thanks for the great suggestions on tools to use to edit pdf files. As a followup, are there tools that can convert pdfs to mobi format? possibly calibre...: http://calibre-eb

Re: Converting pdfs to mobi

2014-01-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: > As a followup, are there tools that can convert pdfs to mobi format? > > Amazon, as part of its Kindle service, does provide a pdf to azw (Amazon's > version of mobi) conversion service: > - email the pdf as an attachment to the email address a

Re: Converting pdfs to mobi

2014-01-26 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:04:29PM -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: > > Greetings, > > Much thanks for the great suggestions on tools to use to edit pdf files. > > As a followup, are there tools that can convert pdfs to mobi format? possibly calibre...: http://calibre-ebook.com/ -- Fred Smith -

Re: Converting pdfs to mobi

2014-01-26 Thread g
*note* please excuse if this is duped. 1st send aborted as 'server unavailable'. hello max, On 01/26/2014 11:04 AM, Max Pyziur wrote: <> The results are generally good. Once in a while, there is a pdf file that was produced either from images (hence no text) or odd formating. In those cases