If you like the way this website is presented, you may like http://wiby.me. It's a search engine for simple (i.e. minimal CSS/JS, fast to load) websites.
I wrapped this for iOS, and linked it to Twitter. If you connect it to your account, there is a separate feed of any tweet with a PDF, and one for any arXiv or PDF tweet that you've liked. [You don't have to connect, you can also just input the URL or quick-paste].
It's great for following your favorite scientists and professionals, and now I favorite more of their posts, which makes me happy because I feel like I am spreading more love in the world.
edit: fyi it's originally because the information about Encryption Compliance is so confusing. I just use HTTPS and I'm pretty sure the documentation has gotten clearer in the meantime, so I'm optimistic.
Thanks! And please write about your experiences trying or achieving that! I know more apps that "aren't available" and I hope it's not too hard to change that, if I knew I'd write to other authors too.
And please consider that some who'd like to use k2pdfopt on the iphone don't use Twitter at all, I have a sure example of one, and I hope I could use your app independently from that?
The app works for 1) arXiv papers 2) any url of a paper obtainable from the address bar of your phone.
If you copy-paste, or copy and use the clipboard button, it will try to identify the arXiv identifier from the url, and then show you the title + abstract. Then you have to download the PDF, preview the transformed copy (copy stays in the cloud for 24h), and finally request a fully reflowed copy. The reflow is limited to about 30s via AWS Lambda, so this is not for dissertations -- this is for 2-20 page papers you can reasonably read on your phone. Nevertheless, there is a progress bar at the top of the screen to show you it's working, at that stage. These steps are pretty much reproduced in the app store images.
For a non-arXiv link, the only difference is that there is no abstract. But note, the link can't just be to the journal page, you've got to get a PDF mime-type when it's requested.
There are some things I should change, but it's very useful to me, and I just verified it works for both arXiv and non-arXiv. If it's not working for you, I would suggest deleting and reinstalling (sorry!).
The website might like out belongs in a museum but I use the tool weekly for reformatting research papers and pdf books. It works great and I highly recommend it.
“My site (willus.com) now offers SSL/https connectivity. Apparently this happened without my being notified, at no charge to me, which is nice. As a result, today I configured my site (and my backup site willus.org) to automatically re-direct http requests to https requests. Enjoy the added security!”
Nice, I remember using the crop function in my mobile pdf readers. Nowadays I OCR all my pdfs into ePub/markdown so I can grep, reflow, RSVP speed read and text-to-speech them.
I tried converting this - http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds/book.pdf for mobile but it doesn't work very well. Diagrams get spread across multiple pages and the zoom is not consistent. Maybe I did something wrong with the settings.
I used this tool a couple of times to get research PDFs onto my kindle and even emailed the author (he responded quickly) about how to stop diagrams from splitting; it's pretty cool to see these old school kind of programmers vs. the poor young web devs that spend 50% of their time writing hacky Javascript that will be obsolete in a year...
You can argue that the "hacky Javascript" written by the "young web devs" you deride will be as obsolete in a year as the code this old school programmer has written.
Just because you're not using the grooviest library or haven't been writing C++17 doesn't mean your application, which still functions on its target plaforms, is obsolete.
Calibre has a feature to convert file formats (ePub, PDF, etc). I haven't used it much as I tend to just go for ePub as source. Does K2pdfopt work better than Calibre?
It’s not comparable. This tool reformats pdf to pdf which fits e-book readers, and often needs your input for fine tuning. But it does what other tools don’t (at least as much as I know).
I wish I'd had this in uni. I used to have to read 3 research papers a week on my Kindle,it was terrible having to zoom about before they had a touch screen.
(Website is gone, repo is stale: https://github.com/robamler/dontprint. It uses k2pdfopt.)