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gtshadow · 11-17-2010, 06:36 AM

This isn't specifically a calibre question (although there may be some way of doing what I want with calibre that I don't know of) so I hope it is okay to post this here.

I have a lot of books (mostly pdf files) that have page numbers that I want to get rid of. Going through each book and manually deleting all the page numbers would obviously be way too time consuming, but I have been unable to think up any other way of doing it. Right now, the fastest method I have come up with is using a search and replace feature, but I still would have to manually enter each page number and leave the replace text blank, which isn't very fast at all. I understand that regular expressions can sometimes be used in these situations, but I don't know anything about regular expressions, so I don't know where they would be used or how to make the regex anyway.

So... I am hoping that some people here can tell me the method or methods that they use to accomplish this feat...

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

11-17-2010, 06:36 AM	#1
gtshadow Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 3872 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Sony prs-505	Best Way To Delete Page Numbers? This isn't specifically a calibre question (although there may be some way of doing what I want with calibre that I don't know of) so I hope it is okay to post this here. I have a lot of books (mostly pdf files) that have page numbers that I want to get rid of. Going through each book and manually deleting all the page numbers would obviously be way too time consuming, but I have been unable to think up any other way of doing it. Right now, the fastest method I have come up with is using a search and replace feature, but I still would have to manually enter each page number and leave the replace text blank, which isn't very fast at all. I understand that regular expressions can sometimes be used in these situations, but I don't know anything about regular expressions, so I don't know where they would be used or how to make the regex anyway. So... I am hoping that some people here can tell me the method or methods that they use to accomplish this feat... Thanks in advance for any help you can give.