PDF

Print-to-disk format used by Adobe Acrobat. Sometimes used for EBook publishing. Just horrible, pls use epub.

latest method: copy to gdrive; Open With gdocs (it even does the OCR!); massage; Download as Epub!
I've used CleverPDF's free online service to convert PDFs to epub.
- and then open in calibre, Edit the epub, copy/paste the text over to BBEdit where I can use regex to strip out weird things like footers, and create headers, then paste back into Calibre. Big improvement
another possibility: https://github.com/aourednik/pdf2epub3fixed

Combining image files into a single PDF on the Mac.

to suck text out of a file: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html

software alternatives http://www.cartridgesave.co.uk/news/hacks--16/30-alternatives-to-adobe-acrobat--427.html

Small Pdf service for generating PDF-s http://smallpdf.com/

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