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Originally Posted by bleopaskom
I use Abbyy to convert PDFs to EPUB, and the conversions are almost perfect.
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For Non-Fiction? With footnotes? Doubt it.
Perhaps for simple stuff like Fiction, you
may be able to get near-perfect PDF->EPUB output from Finereader...
But with complicated Non-Fiction (footnotes/tables/charts), you'll need to manually correct lots of little issues.
See my response in
2017: "Converting pdf file of a scanned book to epub format":
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Depending on the export format, Finereader does try to do its best, but it botches the "linking back/forth footnotes" pretty badly. The only way to handle it is properly is to manually correct them.
There are some tools to kind of help speed up the process though:
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You may also want to check out some of the other threads:
or do a search for:
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footnotes PDF tex2002ans site:mobileread.com
footnotes EPUB tex2002ans site:mobileread.com
Footnotes have been discussed to death.
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Originally Posted by bleopaskom
Do I have to do something in Abbyy first?
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There was maybe something about exporting to Word and fixing it there, or using Sigil, or just making use of Toxaris ePUB-Tools, but I don't really understand how to do it.
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I'm still on Finereader 12, but I doubt much changed in 15.
Depending on the book, it might be easier to go:
- Finereader PDF
- -> Save As "Formatted Text" DOCX
- -> Word + Toxaris's EPUB Tools
- -> EPUB.
This will avoid some of the worst Finereader EPUB problems, because:
- Finereader's DOCX export is less buggy
- The EPUB export sometimes randomly eats text, especially in footnotes.
- Toxaris's EPUB Tools was designed for stripping/cleaning/fixing a lot of Finereader's cruft.
Toxaris's tools will also generate a MUCH cleaner EPUB file for you to work from, saving you tons of time.
See my posts in
2020: "OCRing + EPUBing my first book: Tips?" (especially Post #15 where I explain some of that).
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Originally Posted by bleopaskom
Converting PDF to EPUB and automatically creating popup footnotes
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See my posts from 2020 in
"I have a DOCX with footnotes that I wanna turn to pop-up notes in ePub on Kobo Forma"...
But there are lots of Finereader footnote issues that you're going to hit, like:
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
- While many footnotes were detected properly, many weren't.
- On top of that, the problem with PDF->DOCX "automated footnotes" is... the numbers may now be thrown way off. If 1-4 + 6-10 were detected fine... Word will only think there are "9 actual footnotes". 5 will be floating in the text, and 6-10 will now be off by 1.
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Originally Posted by bleopaskom
Is there a Calibre addon that can help link them automatically?
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No.
Learn regular expressions. They'll be your best friend.
Depending on the book/errors that crept in, it may be just as simple as changing:
into
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<a href="#fn5" id="ft5">[5]</a>
but, much more likely, you'll have to renumber (+manually move) all your footnotes again.
Finereader may have automatically detected 90% footnotes, but accidentally missed 10%, leaving them in the text itself.
When Finereader exports to other formats, it links + "helpfully" renumbers all your footnotes for you.
Original PDF:
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As studies show,<sup>1</sup> brown cows do not
produce brown milk.<sup>2</sup>
This is another sentence with a footnote.<sup>3</sup>
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<sup>1</sup> One. The studies.
<sup>2</sup> Two. They produce white milk.
<sup>3</sup> Three. More footnote.
Let's say Finereader correctly detected Footnotes 1+3, but missed 2:
Finereader EPUB:
Code:
<p>As studies show,<a id="footnote1"></a><sup><a href="#bookmark1">1</a></sup> brown cows do not
produce brown milk.<sup>2</sup></p>
<p>This is another sentence with a footnote.<a id="footnote2"></a><sup><a href="#bookmark2">2</a></sup></p>
<p><sup>2</sup> Two. They produce white milk.</p>
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<p><a id="bookmark1"></a><a href="#footnote1">1</a> One. The studies.</p>
<p><a id="bookmark2"><a href="#footnote2">2</a> Three. More footnote.</p>
Whoops, now you have to correct all the numbering. AND you have to manually move footnote 2 into its proper location.
... No automated tool can magically find/correct this stuff. You have to manually spot and fix this.
(There are a few tricks/speedier ways, but it's still a lot of manual legwork + various methods you have to stitch together. Every single book is going to have completely different issues crop up.)
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Originally Posted by bleopaskom
A step-by-step guide would be appreciated.
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Doesn't exist.
There's too many variables.
All the individual pieces have been explained on MobileRead though, in extreme depth.
Whatever problem you have, you can usually type this in your favorite search engine:
Code:
type out your exact problem Tex2002ans site:mobileread.com
type out your exact problem Hitch site:mobileread.com
and me and/or Hitch probably answered it already.
But what you want: a simple PDF->EPUB, one-button-press, turnkey solution... it just doesn't exist.