https://magdi.work/tags/kindle/ Recent content in Kindle on Ahmed Magdy Hugo en-us Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://magdi.work/posts/pdf2epub/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://magdi.work/posts/pdf2epub/ <p><em>A Go CLI that turns scanned, image-only PDFs into Kindle-ready reflowable EPUBs — and everything that went sideways along the way.</em></p> <p>I had a real problem to solve: a scanned copy of an old Arabic memoir — 420 pages, image-only PDF, no text layer at all. I wanted to read it on a Kindle, reflowable, in Arabic, with proper chapters. Nothing off-the-shelf did that well without uploading a personal scan to some cloud OCR service, which didn&rsquo;t sit right with me.</p>