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Originally Posted by Elfuente
could you give a quick step by step guide how you do that. I didnīt find out how convert the .html either to pdf, .mobi or epub
thank you
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In MobiPocket creator import the PDF. The software will then do its thing and dump the resultant .html file and associated images in a folder in your home directory somewhere, and offer to display the files. It will also offer to create a .mobi, which you can skip since everything Calibre needs is there already. Then import the .html into Calibre, which will show up as a .zip (including the images), and convert that to .ePub.
Attached is a screenshot showing the original PDF, the files MobiPocket creator created, and the end-product .ePub after importing and converting with Calibre (I imported the files over to MacOS as MobiPocket unfortunately is Windows-only, so this is even easier in Windows). The original PDF is unreadable with tiny text, while converting directly with Calibre results in a mess of layout artefacts, but using MobiPocket as the front-end results in a final .ePub that looks like an official ePub, for a book that's very unlikely to ever get an ebook release. Would be amazing if Calibre could do this itself, but it's really focused on transcoding between well-formed XML formats, not intelligently dealing with layout issued from a PDF.
I've also had good success with MobiPocket with multi-column documents, and even some docs I scanned and OCR'd myself using Acrobat. Calibre doesn't even come close.
p.s. tried to convert the same book from PDF to .html with Acrobat to see how they stack up: the Acrobat conversion was totally unreadable: inserted random spaces inside words everywhere for reasons I can't figure out since they're not in the raw text if I just copy-paste it. The only thing Acrobat seems to have over MobiPocket is better handling of tables. Also the notable downside of costing money.