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Old 01-08-2025, 08:06 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Orion Invictus View Post
I missed an even more relevant sticky thread, about how PDF is just about the worst format to convert from, as well as the fact that Calibre doesn't handle two columns very well. Since scientific articles are in PDF and almost always two columns, this was a pointless effort on my part.

Thanks for the help, a mod can probably close/delete this, I doubt it's gonna help anyone.
I do a lot of converting old magazines, usually two columns, to epubs. Also with centered text boxes, advertisements, "continued on page nn", and whatnot. There are no magic shortcuts. OCR a column at a time, put the text into Writer, proofread and correct, and then finally you can make an epub.
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