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Quoting "Lee Passey" <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, October 19, 2011 2:29 am, Arvinder Sharma wrote:
>
>> I am interested in some software which directly converts PDF or TIFF into
>> quality e-PUB and minimal tweaking within fraction of minutes
>
> Ain't gonna happen.
>
> When you're talking about ePub and PDF you're talking apples and ... well ...
> pictures of apples. Trying to create an ePub from PDF is like taking an album
> of photos of apples and trying to make an apply pie from it.
<snip>>
> If the PDF file is one you have created, the answer is to start with a format
> other than PDF. If the file is one you have acquired from somewhere else, and
> you don't have a PDF editing program, like Acrobat, your best (and perhaps
> only) option is to use a high-quality OCR program, like ABBYY FineReader and
> start from scratch.
Lee is right, PDF to anything else is a pain. But there are two other
possibilities. there are programs that do a direct PDF to text
conversion, and you can cut and paste out of PDF.
Warning ;-): You will have to check carefully that the interpretting
in either case is correct.
Good luck,
Joseph Harris
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