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by hwh 3455 days ago
k2pdfopt: http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ We use that engine in the OSS KoReader application.
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The last time I tried to build k2pdfopt, the source zip was missing a bunch of files. You had to download another zip, which wasn't complete either, and combine the results. And then the build failed because cmake was having a bad hair day. I wanted to like it since the windows exe did seem very handy, but had to give up at that point. (Oh, wait, there was a bit more. I did get it building, but the source assumed fprintf(NULL, "log msg") was a perfectly fine thing to do. That's when I gave up.)
I'm trying right now to build it from source, and I'm astonished that it doesn't come with automake tools.

I'm pretty much used to all the sources to work with "./configure && make", and have a BUILDING.txt or INSTALL.txt. k2pdfopt doesn't have any of this.

How does it compare to PDFLower?