gPDFText is a text editor for GTK+ that opens PDF documents for ebook readers, converts the text contents into plain ASCII text, restores the original paragraphs and removes unwanted line breaks to allow easier zooming on the reader.
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Many downloaded PDF files for ebook readers still use the A4 paper type (or letter which is similar in size) and when the PDF is displayed on the ebook reader, the zoom required to display the entire page makes the text too small. Simply exporting the PDF into text causes problems with line wrapping and the various ways that ebook PDFs indicate page headers and footers make it hard to automate the conversion.
gPDFText loads the PDF, extracts the text, reformats the paragraphs into single long lines and then puts the text into a standard GTK+ editor where you can make other adjustments.
On the ebook reader, the plain text file then has no unwanted line breaks and can be zoomed to whatever text size you prefer.
gPDFText is a software licensed under the GNU General Public Licence version 3 or later.
What is new in this release:
- The fix from 0.1.4 was improved to use the poppler macro to cope with newer versions of libpoppler-glib.
What is new in version 0.1.2:
- gpdftext has been relicenced to GPL-v2 only to match the poppler and gtkspell dependencies.
What is new in version 0.1.0:
- Version 0.1.0 includes support for exporting the text to a PDF of a customised size (using cairo) as well as import from existing text files.
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