Turning Evernote Webclips into readable PDFs

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My research team has used Evernote to clip a variety of websites as part of our data collection process. I have merged the clips of each site into a single note (combination of Simplified, Article and Full formats). We have, as far a possible simplified formatting. 

The next step is to 'print' the note as a PDF so that we can upload the files to our Qualitative Data Analysis platform (Dedoose) - which doesn't support the file formats listed under 'export'. 

The text readability for many (over 20) of these print created PDFs disappears and the text fields that are selected (even after running OCR) in the PDF reader (Adobe) come out as large blocks, that do not follow a clear format. 

Does anyone have ideas of a more efficient method of exporting Evernote readable text into a PDF? We are using this text for coding purposes so need to be able to select sentences and words rather than random blocks.

Have attached an example pdf 

AYLS007_Future Nation School_ZA.pdf

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Hi.  I'm not particularly surprised that a random collection of variously-coded websites condensed into a single 'simplified' file is not easily OCR'd.  Your file is possibly a collection of some characters and some images in different formats which - I don't believe - would be easy for a single OCR utility to process.

There are a number of browser extensions which will convert all or part of an individual website into a PDF file directly,  and there are utilities such as NAPS2 which can split and stitch PDF files.  You may find that creating a PDF for each site and editing and combining those PDFs gives a better result...

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Thanks. For the input we have tried to make one pdf per site out of the merged Evernote clips which was why I was wondering if theres a way to unify the formats in Evernote but will look for alternative clippers. 

The other ones we looked at didnt seem like they could output in PDF which was why we went with Evernote. If you have any specific extensions that come to mind, recommendations would be much appreciated.