Thread: How To Use Alt Text Instead of Images?
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Old 10-20-2020, 03:06 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by EuroScribe View Post
I am dealing with an epub which is full of junk images (eg. Chapter titles, section breaks etc). Looking at the code using calibre code editor, I can see alt texts have been defined for every image.

For the love of God, how can I get rid of images in an epub and just use the alt texts instead. I prefer to have absolutely plain text in my epub, unless the images are essential or at least high quality (maps, illustration etc). I can not stand superfluous decorative images.

So how do I go about doing it? Any method will do as long as the end result is achieved (epub to epub conversion, epub to docx conversion, modifying epub etc).

Any help please.
I use the crude approach and edit the epub file and manually delete them, one by one. If the html is consistent you might be able to create a regular expression that matches them and replace them with nothing.
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