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Re:Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle by Johnythree on Sunday May 01, 2022 @03:52AM (#31223017)
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.

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Re:Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle by freedomben on Sunday May 01, 2022 @11:32AM (#31225842)
what did you use to scan them? did you have to remove the binding?
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Re:Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle by Johnythree on Sunday May 08, 2022 @06:49AM (#31302922)
I 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/

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.

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