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helixpteron · 01-07-2017, 04:35 AM

I only have a history of two weeks trying to convert:

I tried calibre, Acrobat Pro with Calibre, Wondershare PDF converter and Aiseesoft Converter.

The only software I found to do this reliably was the Aiseesoft PDF Converter and I stopped looking for another solution, as this simply did the trick for what I needed. There is a pdf to epub only version, which ist cheaper.

In theory you should be able to set the autoimport folder of calibre as the output folder of Aiseesoft, but unfortunately it doesn't set author and title right - so I export into source folder and then add the format to calibre manually. It's a bit inconvenient, but the result is worth it. Or - you can autoadd it - mark the old and the new book and then use command-shift-M to merge the two book in the first selected one - this requires the least input.

Therefor this isn't a solution for bulk conversion, but I only use it when calibre doesn't yield a decent result and then it ist brilliant. I tried to achieve the same with Acrobat Pro, but it was inferior - by far. I reconverted books that came out unusable with everything else I tried and it worked fine.

https://www.aiseesoft.de/pdf-to-epub-converter/

PS: For the cover images to show up in ibooks I had to do a epub to epub conversion with output profile table in calibre, but that might not be a conern for you.

Hope this helps, Rob.

01-07-2017, 04:35 AM	#12
helixpteron Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2016 Device: Kobo Aura One	I only have a history of two weeks trying to convert: I tried calibre, Acrobat Pro with Calibre, Wondershare PDF converter and Aiseesoft Converter. The only software I found to do this reliably was the Aiseesoft PDF Converter and I stopped looking for another solution, as this simply did the trick for what I needed. There is a pdf to epub only version, which ist cheaper. In theory you should be able to set the autoimport folder of calibre as the output folder of Aiseesoft, but unfortunately it doesn't set author and title right - so I export into source folder and then add the format to calibre manually. It's a bit inconvenient, but the result is worth it. Or - you can autoadd it - mark the old and the new book and then use command-shift-M to merge the two book in the first selected one - this requires the least input. Therefor this isn't a solution for bulk conversion, but I only use it when calibre doesn't yield a decent result and then it ist brilliant. I tried to achieve the same with Acrobat Pro, but it was inferior - by far. I reconverted books that came out unusable with everything else I tried and it worked fine. https://www.aiseesoft.de/pdf-to-epub-converter/ PS: For the cover images to show up in ibooks I had to do a epub to epub conversion with output profile table in calibre, but that might not be a conern for you. Hope this helps, Rob. Last edited by helixpteron; 01-07-2017 at 04:47 AM.