The end result is a new PDF file that is really true to the original document and free from odd OCR blunders (as it doesn’t attempt to convert or reflow the text). Rather than convert the document into raw text and try to reformat it, it instead carefully crops and realigns the pieces as though they were a series of images. K2pdfopt is designed to optimize PDF documents for small screen e-readers.
Its input is the XML output of pdftohtml, to which it reflows the text, removes page number, header, footers, and hyphenation, and generates an HTML file output.īriss, a cross-platform open-source tool, gives you several ways to trim PDFs to look better on your ereader. Pdfreflow is a command line tool that reflows PDF text. Most of them take a file in, reformat it, and spit out a modified version of the original. Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about PerfectReader Classic - Beautiful PDF Reader with Unique Text Reflow, Sepia/Night/Daytime reading modes, plus High-quality Text To Speech (Free version). These tools do not offer live reflow functionality, rather they reformat the PDF using a variety of other techniques. In Text Reflow mode you can now resize the text by pinching/double-tapping the. That same thread goes on to highlight a couple of other alternatives to reflow that might be worth looking into. Open your PDF file using the Adobe Reader App on your mobile device. Pdf2txt or pdf2html and rely on a browser to do reflow. Text extraction and /not/ display the document as a pdf eg use One alternative is therefore to use poppler's Acrobat's reflow feature relies upon tagged pdfs (whichĪre not all that common), or guessing the layout, much as poppler doesįor text extraction. If this is for display on small devices, remember there are otherĪpproaches. The other thing that caught my eye from this thread was this bit about Acrobat's support of this feature:Ĭan i get any help or documentation for reflow implemantation? This upstream tool is called Poppler and according to this question on one of the development forums for Poppler, titled: Reflow Feature Support in Poppler it isn't supported. As of August 2013 it doesn't appear that the upstream tool to Evince, as well as other PDF viewers on Linux, supports this feature. And that reflow was similar.This is a bit of a negative answer but I thought it relevant to the topic. And based on my initial attempts to change some linguistic papers to epub before reading that any such engine is going to wreck formatting in a way not appropriate for something that isn't just words. This last comment is not based on personal experience as I don't have a device that reflows, but rather on comments from others who have stated that reflow is really only useful for novels or similar with no extras beyond writing. Since you referred to textbooks, I thought you might have more problems trying to read reflowed text, as any textbook that uses anything besides words (graphs, equations, etc etc) is unlikely to reflow properly anyway. Annotations are possible to make on bookmarks, but since you can't highlight, you can only make annotations per page not per selected text. You can use dictionary, but must type in word. Note 2: If you wanted reflow not just to be able to change the font size, but also for highlighting, dictionary use and annotations, then it's true you partially lose these functions on your Aura. However, all techniques for turning PDF pages apply to Reflow mode - you can turn reflowed pages by swiping, by tapping or by using Turn Page buttons.
So you will only see the text from the current PDF page in Reflow mode. To get around this you can:ī) tap to have the menu pop up and then close the menu, this also refreshes. PDF Reflow is done on a page-by-page basis due to performance reasons. Note: Right now there is a bug when using PDF that makes ghosting bad when moving around within a zoomed PDF. Although there is no reflow and therefore no way to change the "font size" per se, you do know that you can zoom them, right? When I make a PDF fit to screen LR, I find the text size very readable. Looking back at your post, I realised that you wanted to change the size to make your pdfs readable on your Aura. Therefore the Aura HD will become a 'keeper' and I will buy a cheap Tablet with PDF reflow for my textbooks. I sat and read a whole novel through last night (in epub) and the experience was superb, the quality and the clarity of the print was a delight to use. After reading all the above posts, perhaps I was being hasty in wanting to sell off my Aura HD.
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