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Originally Posted by fjtorres
pdftotext is a program that somebody already spent lots of time creating. Using that is hardly writing a pdf to epub converter. That is using somebody else's work to extract raw text and then running an epub encoder, keeping all the imperfections introduced by the text extractor.
Not at all comparable to what was requested.
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Actually, re-read what I wrote and tell youself that again and then go practice some reading comprehension. All I said was that writing a script that converted from pdf to epub would be trivial. You are the one who started spouting off with "Have you written a decompiler before?", "Or a program to convert, say, FORTRAN TO C++?" I mean, that was ridiculous. Way to really overthink a problem.
Also, who said anything about keeping all the imperfections introduced by the text extractor? Have you ever heard of ispell? I already have a perl one-liner that can take care of hyphenated words. Do you even know how to chain commands together? Your thinking is extremely limited.
Tell me, is the author of the Poppler tools your New Messiah?
EDIT: Also, you never answered my twice asked question. Have you ever used the Poppler tools?
EDIT2: I guess you don't know what a "script" is either.