On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Max Pyziur <pyz@xxxxxxxxx> 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 assigned to the
respective Kindle device
- put "convert" in the subject line
- within a few moments your Kindle account lists the converted pdf
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 the conversion results are weak.
My interest would be in bypassing Amazon's service.
Calibre will convert many input formats to many output formats,
including PDF to Mobi. Obviously if the PDF input is a set of scanned
images, the output will be poor unless you can do OCR on them (haven't
tried that). It also manages all your e-books, can talk to a variety
of e-readers and is a screen reader itself. The UI is slightly strange
but it's well-maintained and frequently updated.
yum install calibre
I have calibre installed, and I'll crow about it as much as you and
Franlin.
In particular, downloading/saving webpages, and then converting them to
.mobi.
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.
Just to compare, I do this from the command prompt:
ebook-convert source-file.pdf target-file.mobi
(ebook-convert recognizes the file extension).
Of course, the results are not consistent for web pages. With troublesome
webpages, I edit the html, removing a lot of embedded scripts, and the
like.
poc
MP
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