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Old 04-14-2019, 02:17 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
On of the great things about converting to word either by importing into word or using Acrobat that can now convert to word is that you are left with a file that is easy to edit and powerful to create CSS using styles automatically when converted to ePub. Word itself is page oriented so it is easy to compare and yet word flows easily as well.

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BUT...if that really worked, commercial firms like mine would do that. And we don't.

To this day, we still use ABBYYFineReader, and "convert" the PDF via scanning & OCR. Now...that's a lot of time, effort and money to spend, if "save as Word" genuinely worked worth a damn.

The cruft underneath that's created, using ANY "save as Word" or one of the ubiquitous websites, that all pretty mjch use Calibre's API, is mind-boggling.

In short, IMHO, there's no "good" way to convert a PDF to ePUB. It's a lot of steps and a lot of work.

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