On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Max Pyziur <pyz(a)brama.com>
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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