[exaltedwombat]

Big project coming up, producing EPUB from publication-ready PDF. No chance of accessing the source files, INDD or whatever.

Current workflow:

Trim off chapter headers, page numbers etc. in Acrobat (followed by Remove hidden information to REALLY remove the data). Often amenable to a degree of automation.

Convert in Calibre. Generally a good job done on the actual text, but despite the best attempts of Heuristics there will still be a lot of spurious paragraph breaks to check and edit.

Collate footnotes (there are LOTS of footnotes) to a section at the end of each chapter and construct hyperlinks to and from them. Any ideas for making this easier?

Reset illustrations (not too many of these).

Include the original Index section, but with a note "please consider this a wordlist for use with your reader's Search function".

Charge accordingly to the work done!

Any tips and tricks anyone can offer? Thanks.