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Old 01-24-2011, 05:26 AM   #1
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mysterious case of lost double Ls - and other letters

I have a pdf which is not converting properly to epub.

e.g. PDF source has the name Ellen,but in th epub it has become El en.

I cannot see why

Code:
 <p class="calibre3">One flight down, on the fourth landing, ear pressed against the door of 4B, El en Swenson clasped a hand over her mouth, suppressing the urge to cal out to her husband, Mike, who dozed sporadically in their apartment, behind their currently unlocked door. El en had left
some instances of Ellen are fine, but there are several like the above.

I cannot directly paste source text as it appears as an image on clip board.

is calibre attempting OCR and glitching on the double L's ? is there a workaround ?

another example - from the calibre epub viewer - see all the double L issues, whih are not in the pdf source:

Safely on the other side of the stairwel housing, Ruth tilted her head up and let the cataract wash over her cataracts. She’d been scheduled to have phacoemulsification the week after martial law was declared. Now she was stuck with cloudy vision of a cloudy sky. She pul ed some matted strands of hair away from her eyes, her fingers straying up her forehead, which seemed to go al the way to the back of her head. Maybe it was better she couldn’t see that wel . In her mind she could stil picture herself as she was. Abe, too.

fixing this with regex would be a nightmare
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