How to convert DRM Free eReader to HTML or something else?

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by orwell2k

Actually, I think Stanza will export to a multitude of formats, so you could convert from PDB to just about anything, including PDF, Mobi, Word, HTML, RTF, Text, even Kindle. I guess the success of the various conversions will differ, so you can try a few.

Stanza web site still indicates eReader is an unsupported format although they have support for PalmDoc and Mobipocket.

Dale

[wayrad]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

It is probably PalmDOC, but it is easy to tell. Open the .pdb file with a text editor and look near the start for TEXtREAd (PalmDOC) or PNPdPPrs (eReader), see wiki: PDB.

Drat, it IS Palm DOC format. Thanks for the pointer. OK, I have a tool around somewhere (PublishEbook?) that I think I can use to make an Ereader file for testing purposes. At least, I seem to remember that I tried it once and got a file that could be opened with Ereader but not PalmFiction, which made me think it was not PalmDOC.

[texasnightowl]

Originally Posted by wayrad

Drat, it IS Palm DOC format. Thanks for the pointer. OK, I have a tool around somewhere (PublishEbook?) that I think I can use to make an Ereader file for testing purposes. At least, I seem to remember that I tried it once and got a file that could be opened with Ereader but not PalmFiction, which made me think it was not PalmDOC.

Like I mentioned before, I had a prc file that was actually PalmDoc format...TEXtrREAd...try pdbshred...I was able to get a html file out

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

If you send me a non-DRMed eReader file I will try to modify it so that it will work. Can't be too hard... even though I don't work in python all that much I can usually read and edit existing code of languages I haven't worked with.

BOb

The file I am trying to convert is available at the following link. Thanks!

http://craphound.com/content/Cory_Do...nt_Ereader.pdb

[wayrad]

Originally Posted by texasnightowl

Like I mentioned before, I had a prc file that was actually PalmDoc format...TEXtrREAd...try pdbshred...I was able to get a html file out

Yes, the one I successfully converted with Interparse 4 also had the "TEXtREAd" string.

Alas, Interparse does not work on the Doctorow EReader file... One could run it through the analog hole but it'd be a pain.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by texasnightowl

Like I mentioned before, I had a prc file that was actually PalmDoc format...TEXtrREAd...try pdbshred...I was able to get a html file out

I did try pdbshred. It said it was an unsupported format.

But it did convert it to the PML. I'm looking for an HTML so I don't have to edit it so much.

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The file I am trying to convert is available at the following link. Thanks!

http://craphound.com/content/Cory_Do...nt_Ereader.pdb

OK, I used a combination of pdbshred and my own modified pml2html.py script to produce:

(1) Cory_Doctorow_-_Content_Ereader.html from Cory_Doctorow_-_Content_Ereader.pdb (see Cory_Doctorow_-_Content_Ereader.zip which contains the intermediary .pml file); and

(2) content.html from content.pml prepared by another mobileread.com member.

The latter has footnotes that were not extracted from the .pdb using pdbshred. BTW, all the links to websites are just underlined, and not hyperlinked.

Enjoy!

[yargoflick]

Hey there, I just found and used the perl based ebook-tools to convert a DRM-free Ereader file from fictionwise to HTML.

Download ebook-tools from cpan:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/EBook-Tools/

The readme has install instructions:
http://search.cpan.org/src/AZED/EBoo...s-0.3.3/README
You'll probably need to install a few perl modules that it needs.

Once built and installed you'll have an 'ebook' command and can simply:
ebook unpack --htmlconvert -f Barzak-LMoths-er.pdb -d moths/

Further command detatils can be found here:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/EBook-Tools/ebook.pl

Thought someone might like.
Cheers.

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by yargoflick

Hey there, I just found and used the perl based ebook-tools to convert a DRM-free Ereader file from fictionwise to HTML.

Download ebook-tools from cpan:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/EBook-Tools/

The readme has install instructions:
http://search.cpan.org/src/AZED/EBoo...s-0.3.3/README
You'll probably need to install a few perl modules that it needs.

Once built and installed you'll have an 'ebook' command and can simply:
ebook unpack --htmlconvert -f Barzak-LMoths-er.pdb -d moths/

Further command detatils can be found here:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/EBook-Tools/ebook.pl

Thought someone might like.
Cheers.

I posted something similar using EBook-Tools v3.3 and a quick & dirty perl script I called 'ereader2html.pl' that does more or less the same thing.

I provided a windows executable as well here.

Thanks for the that command line method using ebook.pl directly!

[tao]

Originally Posted by nrapallo

OK, I used a combination of pdbshred and my own modified pml2html.py script to produce:

(1) Cory_Doctorow_-_Content_Ereader.html from Cory_Doctorow_-_Content_Ereader.pdb (see Cory_Doctorow_-_Content_Ereader.zip which contains the intermediary .pml file); and

(2) content.html from content.pml prepared by another mobileread.com member.

The latter has footnotes that were not extracted from the .pdb using pdbshred. BTW, all the links to websites are just underlined, and not hyperlinked.

Enjoy!

May I get a copy of the pml2html.py script? Thx a lot.

[orwell2k]

Originally Posted by tao

May I get a copy of the pml2html.py script? Thx a lot.

Ditto - if you can post it here, or even PM me if you want an e-mail. Thanks very much.

[JSWolf]

Given that Calibre 0.6.0 will support DRM free eReader format conversion, I feel this script is not going to be needed once it's debugged.