[Old Thread] Removing page numbers.

[ChaoZ]

I have an epub book that has page numbers hardcoded into it. Is it possible to have Calibre remove them automatically when I convert it to mobi for Kindle use?

It's a one or two digit number on its own paragraph, but it also breaks existing paragraph flow. I guess the file was converted from PDF at some point?

[speakingtohe]

you could try converting it back to a pdf and using a program to crop the pages.
google crop pdf for utilties to do this
Works sometimes and sometimes not
Helen

[Perkin]

Open up the epub in Sigil, do a search for

<p>(\d+)</p>

regex + minimal

replace with blank string.

if your sure there's only page numbers in paragraphs, you can do a replace all, but to be safe, step through, by replacing each one individually, then if there is something odd you'll pick it up.

(such as date / year - numbers out of order from page order is a giveaway)

[Manichean]

Calibre has the option to remove headers and/or footers in the conversion process. See the structure detection- part of the conversion settings.

[ChaoZ]

I don't think it's formatted as a header or a footer though.
I broke open the epub using the Tweak option and saw it was actually a paragraph tag.

I also noticed what seems like a bad OCR job. Looks like the file is just bad.

[Manichean]

Originally Posted by ChaoZ

I don't think it's formatted as a header or a footer though.
I broke open the epub using the Tweak option and saw it was actually a paragraph tag.

It doesn't matter how it is formatted, if it can be described by a regexp, Calibre can remove it. But be careful, you could easily remove something you don't want to remove.

[Leonatus]

Is there a Regex crack who could help?
I have some ebooks where, in the current of the text, appear page numbers (probably referring to the original printed version), sometimes even with hyperlink referring to the original TOC. I would like to delete them, but have no clue on regex matters. In one particular book, the numbers appear in squared brackets, such as [Pg 4]. Those numbers have up to three digits. The tags are like this: <span class="pagenum"><a class="pcalibre pcalibre1" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span>. Is there a way of removing them by one single regex command in Sigil or Calibre?

Thanks in advance! And please, remember, I'm completely ignorant in this field.

Hope someone reads this, the thread beeing quite old.

[WhiteAbeLincoln]

I know that this thread is reallly old, and Leonatus's request is also really old, but heres a regex for you and a break down

<span class="\w*"><a class="[A-Za-z_ \d]*" id="[A-Za-z_ \d]*">\[[A-Za-z_ \d]*\]<\/a><\/span>

.

\w* matches zero or more word characters (alphanumeric and _)
[A-Za-z_ \d]* matches zero or more characters between A-Z, a-z or _ (underscore) or a digit or a space

everything else is pretty much an exact match. the random backslashes are escape characters (so the following char isn't interpreted as a regex part) e.g \/ escapes / char, and \[ escapes [ char

http://www.regexr.com/ is a great website for quickly and easily building regexs, and they have a reference sidebar so you can look up syntax etc.

[Leonatus]

WhiteAbeLincoln, thanks heartily for your help, having passed some time, though. By hasard, the problem that I referred above came to me again just last week, and I removed the items manually. Next time, however, I shall be pleased to test your proposal. Luckily, I'm no longer thus ignorant in the business as I wrote a year ago - but still far away from beeing expert.