Does Eslick work with scanned pdfs? also page navigation?

[newsreader]

Hello all.

I had a couple quick questions for anyone who might have experience with the eslick.

First, how does eslick do with scanned, non-ocr pdfs? I'd guess you couldn't reflow a non-ocr pdf, so does one simply have to scroll around the page and/or zoom in and out to read it? That seems like it could get old, if it is the case.

Also, some of the pdfs I would be using have several thousand pages. Since it appears eslick doesn't have any alphanumeric inputs, how does one navigate to a certain page in a larger document like this? Is the navigation snappy?

Any insight is greatly appreciated.

[happynut]

I had some scanned pdfs. Yes, eslick reads scanned pdfs, and you need to zoom and scroll the page to read it. But I don't think the current features are enough for reading such pdfs. The zooming and navigation are still not flexible enough. See my post,
http://forums.foxitsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=13748.

I tried Sony 700 before, I think their navigation is not that slow for reading scanned pdfs except that its screen is too blurry. Personal, I think eslick's functions still leave much to be desired.

[Nancy]

For page navigate, eSlick come with soft keyboard.

[newsreader]

Thanks very much for the info.

[grouriak]

so far it works with any pdf.

First thing I tried was:

150Mb pdf (2dartist), 50Mb pdf (playboy mag), excel pdf, text pdf.

All worked fine. Not very good with the mags, it shows on greyscale and use of zoom and page navigation is a must.

[Yau-Hsien]

Originally Posted by newsreader

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First, how does eslick do with scanned, non-ocr pdfs? I'd guess you couldn't reflow a non-ocr pdf, so does one simply have to scroll around the page and/or zoom in and out to read it? That seems like it could get old, if it is the case.

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I've tried viewing a page from Principia Mathematica. It's a scanned file, actually, TIFF file size up to 1 MB. The page could be zoomed in or out, and, interestingly, landscaped. The eSlick provides landscape function through reflow-landscape-reflow sequence, that is, firstly reflow a page, secondly rotate the page into landscape, and lastly reflow back to the origin page layout. When I tried to landscape the TIFF page, it's interesting that reflowing showed a message saying that the page cannot be displayed, though it's really in reflow mode. And then, landscaping and re-reflowing made the page landscaped. General features of a page work for a scanned image. However, there are no so-called fit-to-content-width feature because for an image as a page its content includes text and margins.

Originally Posted by newsreader

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Also, some of the pdfs I would be using have several thousand pages. Since it appears eslick doesn't have any alphanumeric inputs, how does one navigate to a certain page in a larger document like this? Is the navigation snappy?

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No, the navigation could not be snappy, because of the art-of-state of electronic reading device. The eSlick provides page-selecting feature done with software keyboard and basic flipping feature. Thus, reading a big book, people should remember page number or structures of e-books.