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Originally Posted by JGB
so far I've been opening them in acrobat and saving as a .rtf, then importing into caliber then converting to epub.
But it takes 40 minutes to convert a single book.
And the formatting is only ok, not nearly as nice as .lit to .epub
Also I'm stuck with a file that is 5 times larger at least if I want to keep a format other then the .epub
is there an export or save option in acrobat that is more efficient?
Would I be better off using a converter like PDFRead?
or is that more for converting scanned PDF files that are all images?
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PDFRead will only create images from the .pdf pages; no words or text will be extracted. It's meant mainly to be used as a last resort; when all else fails.
For extracting text, I've had GREAT success using Mobipocket Creator to convert a (Word created) .pdf directly into .prc as explained in
this (similar) thread. Then you can use calibre's mobi2lrf to convert from .prc to .lrf.
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Would saving to html work better, and should I clean it up after that?
if I save it to HTML should I use 3.32 or 4.0?
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If possible, I usually save to HTML 3.2 (simpler and easier to manipulate afterwards). The saving to HTML 4.0 usually uses more complex positioning tags which are harder to strip or make work in an ebook, IMHO.
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Is there anywhere with an indepth explanation of how to use caliber command line? every time I use it I get lost or it does nothing.
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Though, I'm no expert here and not wanting to spread false information,
I usually cd to the calibre install directory and copy my files there ( 
) and use command line syntax like:
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html2lrf -o Outputfilename.lrf -t "My Title" -a "My author" --category="My Cat" --publisher="NR" --verbose Inputfilename.html
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Is there anywhere with a good resource for starting to dig into the ebook conversion and so on information?
I've tried searching here but its hard to find things.
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Have you tried looking at the programs listed in our
E-book conversion wiki?