If you like to read Adobe PDF ebooks, Word Documents or text files on your iPod, cell phone or any other portable device that supports pictures, here’s an extremely useful utility.
Called eBook to Images, this 500kb tool extracts the text out of your PDFs, then converts that text into multiple images that very readable on the small screen.
You can change the text orientation, fonts and the colors to suit your reading style. The software also lets you specify the screen size of your portable device and generates images of the same dimensions.
The other option for reading PDFs on iPod is via the iPod Notes Reader that makes small 4kb text files of your documents and links them together.
Download “eBook to Images” at MerlinSoftware.com.
You could also consider use this tool for reading PDFs on your Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle as both support images. Or save Webpages and Outlook email messages as text and take them with you anywhere. Thanks Samer.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/gadgets/ipod/read-pdf-text-email-on-ipod-mobile-phone/1929/
Reader Comments
Converting to images will take quite a large space depending on the size of the book and space is a premium ina mobile device.
Mobipocket, a freeware with a host of features owned by Amazon, can be used to covert PDFs, *.doc into a format that can be read using a Mobipocket application on your mobile.
Ed: Arun – the ebook to image converter lets you modify all the settings and so the image sizes is actually very reasonable.
Written by Arun on 12.13.07
that called a real blogging man
was waiting for software for this purpose frm months
thnx……
Written by sarv007 on 12.13.07
iPod’s aren’t the only one. What about the Creative Zen? Their is a software to convert txt into picture/pdf documents to put on the player
Written by Davin Peterson on 12.13.07
Thanks for this. I am using it now to read e-books on my Zune.
But it doesn’t support word docs directly.
Written by vasudev on 12.14.07
Great post! Thank you so much for the info.
Big thanks and more power also to “eBook to Images”
Written by mr tan on 04.23.08
I think this software is good to work with text only, but for pdf ebooks with images it does not convert the images in the ebooks to the ipod.
Written by desertaloha on 01.04.09
good points. but from txt to image, the storage size will become larger. The user has to pay more to SP.
Written by Sam on 02.21.09
It only took me 15 minutes to download the program and put a full ebook on my ipod. Simple, easy to use program. Thanks!
Written by chelsea on 03.06.09
How to read any PDF files in any kind of mobiles? U have given me to ebook to images s/w. but is this enough to read PDF files or I have to download .net framework also?
Written by Kulothungan on 03.13.09