My sister's next-month Great Books is Noel Coward's play comedy named "Private Lives" from the 1930s. She's almost blind from complications....
<https://ia801404.us.archive.org/12/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.210130/2015.210130.Private-Lives.pdf>
Looking at that PDF, it seems to be not a "textpdf" (whatever you'd call
it) but just a set of scanned images of the book (with no actual text).
My sister's next-month Great Books is Noel Coward's play comedy named "Private Lives" from the 1930s. She's almost blind from complications.
She is not technical and she only has an iPad and an iPhone but I have Android & Windows so she asked me to help her with IOS text to speech.
She sent me the link to the PDF because it won't text-to-speech read out. <https://ia801404.us.archive.org/12/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.210130/2015.210130.Private-Lives.pdf>
Looking at that PDF, it seems to be not a "textpdf" (whatever you'd call
it) but just a set of scanned images of the book (with no actual text).
I tried converting that PDF with Calibre on Windows to an EPUB format,
but the EPUB was nothing more than a set of the same images in a file.
What's a good way for me to convert that "imagebook" (whatever you call it) to a "textbook" so that I can send it to her to use TTS on her iPad?
It's archive.org. They have documents in multiple formats already.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210130
DOWNLOAD OPTIONS
* ABBYY GZ download
* DAISY download For print-disabled users
* EPUB download
* FULL TEXT download
* ITEM TILE download
* KINDLE download
* PDF download
* PDF WITH TEXT download
* SINGLE PAGE PROCESSED JP2 ZIP
Their FULL TEXT and PDF WITH TEXT will be OCRed by them, so expect
typical OCR errors in it.
Elijah
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does not know what all of the formats are
Usually I'm comfortable starting with an EPUB or Kindle for conversion.
But what's the difference between "PDF" and "PDF with text" anyway?
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