DJVU to PDF converter troubles

[megalomania]

I am trying this new program called STDU Converter to convert a djvu file into a pdf. Unfortunately all I get is a broken pdf file with empty pages. I don't suppose anyone else has tried this thing out and gotten it to work?

Official demo: http://www.stdutility.com/download.html
Cracked full version: http://0day.car.net.pk/2008/07/stdu-converter-116.html

P.S. Don't even bother trying to turn this thread into an infomercial of why djvu is better than anything ever created. You have been warned in advance.

[Alexires]

Hmmm, I seem to have the same problem. It is interesting to note that the ACTUAL size of the images seem to be tiny.

The Trial Version of their program works fine, so it must be the crack.

I just downloaded another crack, but as usual, turns out to be a virus.

[phrankinsteyn]

Mega,

I do not know if you have tried this way yet and it may not be the way you want to go, but this is the way I do it. You can print a DJVU file with Adobe Acrobat Professional. Open djvu file with the DJVU viewer (I use Djvulibre DjView 4.2-freeware) then print file as a pdf. You may have to set Adobe as your default printer. I have not had any problems using this method.

I am sure you can find a copy of Adobe professional somewhere. :)

[festergrump]

There's a copy on the FTP. It's within an Adobe Suite bundle, IIRC.

You could probably go about the same thing as what Phrankinsteyn says by opening up Adobe Acrobat Pro and clicking on create PDF from file, then locating the DJVU file. It doesn't list .djvu in the common extensions this way, but if it will work by assigning Acrobat as your default printer, seems it should also work this way with less hassle. I dislike DJVU files, honestly, so have none to test this theory out with.

[Alexires]

Mega - Have you tried any other Document Converter programs?

How about Universal Document Converter (http://www.print-driver.com/download/)

I'm sure you would find some "support" out there that would tell you how to "get" the full version.

[megalomania]

I wanted to preserve the OCR'd layer in the djvu document, otherwise I would just print it to pdf directly. I was hoping the STDU program would let me do this, but so far I can't get it to work at all. The trial version will not even run on my computer, it just crashes.

[Alexires]

It seems the JRAPublish is the way to go for Djvu-> PDF. Problem is that I can't find any kind of download for it at all.

You might just have to convert it to PDF using whatever program, then OCR it afterwards.....

Sorry I can't be of any more help.

[tapira1]

I would agree with Alexires; the best way (other than using the Jrapublish stuff) is to "print" the document as a pdf and then run the OCR (ABBY finereader?); finally, run the reduce file size in Acrobat to mak a slightly smaller file (they usually get too big)

BTW: The stdu should let you see djvu and pdf in the same application. DL link below.

http://rapidshare.com/files/71163165/STDU_Viewer.exe.html

You would also like to check this:
http://www.djvu-to-pdf-converter.com/purchase.htm

Finally, perhaps this could also be an alternative
http://remb.org/2008/convert-djvu-ebooks-to-pdf.html


Also, just found the info below. Perhaps worth to give a trial.

Adlib Express Enterprise Server 4
Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server with Service Pack 3 | ~144MB

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Hope there were useful

[megalomania]

Ack, most of these document apps just allow you to open and print the document. You can then print it to whatever software printer you have installed.

Sometimes it is not always practical to re-OCR a document because the source image may have been downsampled to save space.

I don't suppose there is a tool to separate the text layer from the image layer of djvu documents?

I am afraid the djvu format is becoming increasing archaic year after year, there is no one left interested in making tools to work with it. Sooner or later Adobe will have compression just as good, and that is the only advantage djvu ever really had. Even 5 years ago I would have jumped on the chance to shrink down books to a tenth of the size, but it is not such a big deal nowadays with torrents, high speed Internet, and big ass hard drives.

That just leaves converting the old into the new.