Thread: Converting .IMP to anything? WE ARE NOW THERE!
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Old 12-17-2008, 01:40 PM   #23
nrapallo
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Originally Posted by mscott161 View Post
Nick,

I know you are working on the conversion of imp to other formats. I have been working on the same goal. I have viewed the source code for the LZSS compression but have not been successful in tweeking it to decompress the text from the imp. Can you give me and insite? I would be willing to same source code in the endever. My code is currently in c# and working toward a imp to lrf converter.

Michael
Nice to hear of your .imp interest, as I'm a big supporter of this format! I would welcome another programmer on the .imp band-wagon.

The LZSS decompressor routine has already been re-written (and working) in Perl. It's been incorporated into EBook-Tools by mobileread.com member AZed by way of a LZSS.pm. It currently is only available in trunk, but should be released soon in version 4.0.

If you would like to PM me with your email address, I can help you with the C source code of same, but since it's a hack, I'm relucant (embarrassed) to post it here.

We (AZed and myself) have a lot more "goodies" in the EBook-Tools bag, like metadata editing and .html and images extraction. So stay-tuned!

I had previoulsy reverse-engineered the .imp format (as did ashkulz), but had no way of implementing what I had learnt via code. Now that I'm involved with EBook-Tools I forsee a lot of re-writing of existing programs to do things the EBook-Tools way. Perhaps you can use this for your conversions as well!
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