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michaelbr · 12-17-2020, 05:55 AM

A friend of mine asked me to help him to convert a PDF ebook to epub, I'm not that familiar with Calibre/conversion, so here are my questions
1) my environment:
OS: MX Linux 19.3
Calibre: 5.5
2) questions:
2.1) as far as I know the PDF does not have DRM (can be opened freely with other readers). But when try with Calibre, it's stuck at loading. How can I check what's the problem?
2.2) It seems Calibre is not very good at converting PDF to epub, and there's a post saying that it's better to use Mobipocket Creator, the trouble is 1) it's dead 2) it's for Windows and I'm using Linux, any other alternative I can try?

12-17-2020, 05:55 AM	#1
michaelbr Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Murcia/Spain Device: Android 12	PDF to epub conversion question A friend of mine asked me to help him to convert a PDF ebook to epub, I'm not that familiar with Calibre/conversion, so here are my questions 1) my environment: OS: MX Linux 19.3 Calibre: 5.5 2) questions: 2.1) as far as I know the PDF does not have DRM (can be opened freely with other readers). But when try with Calibre, it's stuck at loading. How can I check what's the problem? 2.2) It seems Calibre is not very good at converting PDF to epub, and there's a post saying that it's better to use Mobipocket Creator, the trouble is 1) it's dead 2) it's for Windows and I'm using Linux, any other alternative I can try?