I thought output looked better than Calibre's. Look at the titles of the original PDFs.Ĥ. Quite a bit of text from the image files converted into capital letters. Both programs did a better job here but you still need to watch for extra lines being inserted and other odd problems.ģ.

Text files on the other hand looked pretty good. Consider deleting the images before converting or contact a professional conversion services firm.Ģ. * both ePub and mobi were nearly identical so only one result is shown here. This is the same “ Testimony” file converted to ePub/mobi* file using Calibre This is the same “ Testimony” file converted to ePub/mobi* file using This is one page from the PDF of Testimony for the Exiles This is that same Hubspot page converted to ePub/mobi* file but using Calibre This is the same Hubspot page but converted to ePub/mobi* using This is one page from the original Hubspot PDF. That can be good or bad depending on your needs. It is very easy to use and does not require registration.Ĭalibre is similar in both what it can ingest and output except you get more controls and it installs on your local hard drive. It can ingest doc, docx, epub, fb2, html, lit, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf and txt files and output epub, fb2, lit, lrf and mobi (the Kindle format). Be sure to scroll to the bottom for my assessment.Ģ's free online conversion tool is a great resource depending on your needs and the type of document you need converted. I compared the same sections of each book.

The second was a mostly text book of sermons by Mark Feldmeir. One PDF was a highly illustrated PDF eBook from.

This is an important problem to solve given the wide-spread adoption of the PDF format and the wide variety of screen sizes one may want to read on.įor this exercise I selected two file converters and used them to convert two different PDF files to an eBook format (ePub and Mobi had nearly identical results). Such a format-ePub and Mobi are the most popular-presents information as “flowable text”, that is, the information is one continuous page rather than discrete pages like you see in a book or a PDF. Anyone who has tried to read a PDF on a tiny smartphone screen has probably wondered if there was a way to convert the PDF to an eReader format.

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