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@sealbeater. If it is that easy, do it. I won't bore you with the history but there are many books available only as pdf's. I avoid this format like the plague on e-ink readers. Your comment about ispell in your last post simply showcases your ignorance, as it is showcased at many other places in your posts on this subject. Spell checkers generally are zero help with things like homophones or many OCR errors or layout errors. Nor do they deal with things like page headers and footers including page numbers which are fine with a fixed layout but not with a reflowable epub. Putting it quite bluntly I have never found a tool which takes a pdf as input and produces an intermediate format or an epub which does not require substantial manual editing. Results vary from readable to rubbish.
With a little coding knowledge I'm sure it is trivial to write a script that converts pdf to epub very badly. Do you think it is trivial to write such a script which reliably produces near perfect results? How about even marginally acceptable results? If you do it is time to put up or shut-up. If not, then .....
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