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Aug 3, 2024, 4:11:04 PM8/3/24

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To focus, please assume I care only about one thing: The experience of reading "side loaded," scanned PDF files of books downloaded off the Internet on a portable device. There is an upper bound of around 200MB for a single file.

I am not interested in "native" PDF files (re-flowable), EPUB, or any other e-book format. I am not interested in reformatting the PDF files, optimizing, ORC-ing, etc. Not interested in e-book marketplaces or dictionaries or apps or note-taking or games or other bells and whistles. Here's the workflow: I search Google for an old book, find it on archive.org, download it, copy/sync it to the device, read, rinse, repeat.

There are plenty of reviews of devices that cover reading different e-book formats, but rarely do they cover reading scanned PDF books. If mentioned in a review, the topic usually gets a sentence or two, and that's it. Or it only talks about "native" PDF support. Or the review is from 2011 and out-dated.

E-ink would be best, because these books are all scanned black-and-white. I work all day on the computer, the last thing my eye balls need is for me to stare at another lit screen into the wee hours of the night. But most e-reader reviews that I've read said they just don't handle navigating scanned PDF files well (if they can even open them). Is that still true? Besides software support and ease of use (which is probably the biggest issue), the amount of RAM and processor power is likely a concern, too.

A tablet would work if it had a good, crisp display. But the big concern here is eye strain. At least a decent tablet will have enough RAM and processor power to handle a large PDF and allow me to navigate it. So this is a workable option. I have actually read a large scanned PDF book on a first generation iPad -- the PDF app kept crashing and the display was poor and pixel-y, but I persevered. Still, my eyes hated me.

A hybrid would be the Onyx Boox which appears to be an Android tablet that uses an e-ink display. This might work. Reviews suggest it isn't a perfect device but still works well for PDF files. But I can't tell if the reviewers are talking about scanned PDF files or "native" again. Anyone have experience with this one?

Sony Digital Paper. I was going to say that cost doesn't matter, but at $1000 I have to set a limit and this is just too much. This thing apparently will have no problem loading and displaying and navigating any PDF, so this would definitely be an option, except for the prohibitive price. Has anyone used one of these? Is this a good device if one intends to use it to read exclusively and not do any note-taking? Hmm, my wife would kill me.

Getting PDFs on it matters: USB or syncing would be best. I use Linux exclusively and don't have access to Windows or Mac OS X, so this has to be possible via Linux (e.g., Dropbox support is good on Linux). But I'm still more concerned with how well the thing supports actually opening and navigating the scanned books.

Back to the question: What devices support reading scanned PDF documents well? I want to be able to turn the page without waiting 30 seconds. I want to view a page and scroll around (if need be) without fiddling too much with zooming and waiting too long for rendering. And likely there are important factors I'm not considering. Please give me the lowdown. If the market still isn't prepared to support this use case, that's fine, too, I suppose. Thanks for your help.

I presently use a Lenvo Yoga 10 HD+ (previously I had an Acer Iconia A200), but any reasonable spec tablet should do you. I usually use ezPDF reader, but there's a lot of PDF readers out there that work fine (ezPDF was the first that I found that performed well for most things I look at).

If you're trying to quick-flip pages one after the other, it'll take a second or three to go to the next one. If you actually read each page, though, you won't see that, because it renders the next page in the background.

I've used multiple devices to read scanned PDFs, including iPad, Android phone, and Sony e-ink reader. The biggest problem is that the font in scanned PDFs can't be resized, and the text doesn't reflow. On a small device, such as a phone or pocket e-reader, you need to zoom in and then pan across the page. Reading is difficult in this situation, and can be exacerbated when the scanned document consists of two sequential pages.

The e-ink reader was terrible and I stopped using it for this type of document, despite being my reader of choice at the time. The phone was marginally better, as moving the page around was faster and easier. The iPad worked well.

Questions seeking app recommendations, device recommendations, or other purchasing advice are off-topic as they become obsolete quickly. Instead, describe your situation and the specific problem you're trying to solve.

I am really amazed about its ability to show and fit the content to screen when reading columns of text (like in newspaper). It has other super features like horizontal scroll and automatic scroll to next part.

In my opinion it's the best PDF reader for Android. The interface is clean and intuitive, it has all main features that you are expecting from a eBook reader (Bookmarks, Pager, Chapters, etc..) and the transition between pages is very smooth and pleasant. And the most important in your case, the crop feature is so intuitive and practice. In my opinion it's the most comfortable eBook app you could find at this moment. I love it so much!!

2) ezPDF Reader - The problem with this app is that the transition behavior is not much pleasant as other apps, and sometimes you need to swipe 2,3 times to finally turn the page, which is very annoying (mainly when you cropped your pdf). And another little problem is that the crop feature, really crops the file. I mean when you open, then, the same file with another pdf reader, the file is also cropped as you have done it on ezPDF Reader! Which can be disrupting.

3) Moon+ Reader Pro - Interface much better than ezPDF Reader but less features too.. The crop feature is also available there but it's not very well designed. Plus when your file is cropped (actually is more fitted than cropped there), it becomes difficult to turn pages (a little bit as ezPDF Reader Pro)

4) EBookDroid - It works as expected but the interface and global user experience is very poor. It's not pleasant to use. By cons, the crop feature is very well imagined (much better than in Moon+ Reader Pro). I was not able to find if Chapters + Bookmarks feature are implemented. Sorry but it was so painful to test this app.

There is a last option, that requires two applications. This approach is the more constraining but you will have the best reading experience like that. Actually the really best PDF reader (in terms of interface, user experience, page transitions, etc..) now is Google Play Books (Since you can now add your own PDFs in this app by checking an option in settings). The problem is that app hasn't any crop feature, which is so annoying. So the main idea is to crop the file first with ezPDF Reader (Trial version it's enough), and then open it on Google Play Books app. Like this, you will have a wonderful reader experience thanks to Google app, and your PDF will be cropped as you want thanks to ezPDF Reader

1) MuPDF is good to render textbook pdf in android while it may be slow to render pdf with big images. A lot of customizations and improvements especially memory usage control need to do if you want the MuPDF to run fast and stable on android platform. You can check out two open source projects VuDroid and apv which are based on MuPDF.

Another choice is to use Poppler. A successful story is the popular android app ezPDF Reader is based on Poppler, although it's violating GPL license. The out of box Poppler needs more work than MuPDF to do to run on android smoothly. You can refer to the open source project apdfviewer.

I've done some research in this field recently, I've tried more than 14 libraries on Android, I've done simple benchmarking on some high resolution print-ready PDF magazines and I'm currently considering to use MuPDF or Radaee in work as they went out as the best.

Since MuPDF and Radaee (and some other libraries) are written in pure C and are used on Android through NDK, they are giving the best possible performance (and they both are paid for a commercial use).

Take a look at my PDF reader for Android here at anddev.As I remember it uses modified PDFBox (without things related to editing), and features my own font converter (to feed fonts to Android and render them faster).

I don't develop PDF reader anymore and I can make all my changes opensource (though it will require some work, and time). You can try it out to find out how well it performs for you. Note: reader doesn't support encryption and copy-protection.

Just wondering if Paizo products are currently or will ever be available on kindle or other e book products. I am currently looking for a way to have all my Pathfinder stuff at my fingertips without lugging a laptop around and I think the kindle looks cool. But I didn't see any of your products in the kindle store and I don't know if your pdfs will work on it or not. Just tryng to get some advice before buying one. What does the Paizo community say? If you're rocking one of the small / black and white Kindles, I don't recommend Pathfinder PDFs on them. I don't own one of the bigger Kindles and haven't tried that; I assume it's better but I can't say.I heartily recommend the wee Kindle for reading normal books -- but not this.