Thread: Convert Epub > RTF or TXT: Any Way To Eliminate Page Numbers?
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Old 06-16-2020, 07:59 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
You seem to have an unusual ePub that has the page numbers of the original book in the ePub text.

I suspect that if you look at the HTML in the ePub, you'll be able to spot the numbers and remove them with a simple search/replace.
↑ ↑ ↑ ✔

The ebook may have started life as ink-on-paper or PDF, which was put through an OCR scanner to create text, which in turn was converted to EPUB without first removing the print artefacts - like page numbers, footnotes etc.

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