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Old 04-24-2011, 10:43 AM   #1
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pdf to epub - file size increases

Hi, I'm having an issue converting a pdf file to epub. The pdf file is 3.2MB and when I convert it to an epub using Calibre, the output file ends up being 59.5MB! Any ideas why this could be? Thanks.
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Hi, I'm having an issue converting a pdf file to epub. The pdf file is 3.2MB and when I convert it to an epub using Calibre, the output file ends up being 59.5MB! Any ideas why this could be? Thanks.
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Old 04-24-2011, 01:33 PM   #3
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Yes, thanks...but it doesn't do me any good.
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Old 04-24-2011, 02:39 PM   #4
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While it's true that it doesn't do you any good, the answer was in that Sticky:

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Calibre just created a ridiculously huge PDF!
This is most likely because you're using OSX. The third party library Calibre uses for pdf output is broken on OSX.
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Old 04-25-2011, 12:43 AM   #5
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Thanks, not sure if I'm missing something here? But I am not using OSX...I'm on a PC using Windows. Also, the original pdf file is fine at 3MB, however it's the EPUB output file that comes out so large. I've converted many pdfs with Calibre and this has never happened yet...usually the epub ends up being smaller than the original pdf. This is really baffling me...
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Ah, well if that's the direction open up the epub with a zip utility and look inside. The most likely reason is also in the FAQ, but it's not just not explicitly describing the symptoms the same way you are:
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My pdf converted, but it doesn't contain any text, or the text is all garbled
Many pdfs are actually made up of many images of scanned books, one image for each page. Many of these types of pdfs use hidden OCR (optical character recognition - i.e. machine reading) text underneath the images, but not all of them do. When there is no OCR text at all, you will often get a conversion that has no text, or is made up only of images. If the pdf uses hidden OCR text, in most cases no editing was done to the OCR, and depending on the text quality and OCR engine the resulting text can be quite awful. There isn't anything you can do with a pdf like this in Calibre. Your best bet is to use real OCR software like ABBYY Finereader or Acrobat Professional to convert the document. There are also open source OCR projects such as Tesseract and OCRopus.
The epub would be larger because the images probably get converted to a format with less compression/greater bit depth.
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Old 04-28-2011, 10:02 AM   #7
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Does your pdf have a background image?

I had a couple of pdf books that sound similar to what you're seeing - the input files were about a megabyte but the calibre-converted epubs were all around 40-50MB. They had a grey background image, and calibre wanted to add the same simple background image to the epub thousands of times. These were pdfs that were exported from OpenOffice direct by the author - they weren't scanned books.

An epub file is just a zip file - you could always rename it to "book.zip" and then look inside with Windows Explorer by double clicking on it to see what's taking up the space.

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An epub file is just a zip file - you could always rename it to "book.zip" and then look inside with Windows Explorer by double clicking on it to see what's taking up the space.
Better, use tweak ePub from Calibre's context menu.
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Better, use tweak ePub from Calibre's context menu.
Ah, cool! You learn something everyday. I'd always used command line zip to look inside epubs (or Sigil, which doesn't show every file like toc).

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