Other 'decent' methods for dealing with a pure image based PDF (scanned books. ) and exporting either HTML or DOCX from there and using calibre to convert that to epub before editing the epub in calibre's editor or Sigil to clean up the errors. The most common 'decent and best available' methods involve experimenting with importing the PDF into a good text editor (e.g. There are so many possibilities in how a PDF is constructed that there is no way that any app can reliably read the mix of text, vector graphics, and images and create a flowing text without significant errors. Many PDFs don't actually have any text, having vector are that looks like characters or even just bitmap 'pictures' of characters or whole pages.

The problem converting PDFs is that they rarely have text in any logical arrangement of sentences and/or paragraphs. calibre is an excellent ebook format converter, editor, and library manager. I recommend that you give calibre ( )a look and check out the forums at MobileRead ( ). Both are free.The is no such thing as a 'good' way to convert PDF to any editable format, document or true ebook. I highly recommend SumatraPDF or MuPDF if you're after something a bit more. You may or may not need an add-on or extension to do it, but it's pretty handy to have one open automatically when you click a PDF link online. Most web browsers, like both Chrome and Firefox, can open PDFs themselves. It's completely fine to use, but I find it to be a somewhat bloated program with lots of features that you may never need or want to use.

Adobe created the PDF standard and its program is certainly the most popular free PDF reader out there.

Most people head right to Adobe Acrobat Reader when they need to open a PDF. PDF files always look identical on any device or operating system. The reason PDF is so widely popular is that it can preserve original document formatting. The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a universal file format that comprises characteristics of both text documents and graphic images which makes it one of the most commonly used file types today.

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