Here is a photo taken of a WOWIO PDF as it is displayed on my Sony Reader. Since the text doesn’t re-flow, you can see that it is almost unreadable. As a matter of fact, it is not almost unreadable, it is indeed unreadable.
Now here is that same PDF after it has been processed with a piece of free Windows software called pdflrf. As you can see the text is now readable.
pdflrf is available from the MobileRead forums and can be found here. It is now at version 0.7 and the zip file you will download has both a command line and Windows GUI version.
I also downloaded one of the Japanese fairy tale books from the Internet Archive in a black and white PDF format (as the Sony Reader does not display color). When loaded to the Sony Reader the PDF file produced only solid black pages. I then ran the original PDF through pdflrf and it produced a perfectly formatted file with all the illustrations intact.
This is a wonderful tool for any Sony Reader owner and many thank must go to MobileRead and the author for providing this free of charge.
Related: How to read e-books on (almost) any phone, from MobileRead.
