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Originally Posted by wolpi
Hello,
I am trying to extract the text from various ebook formats to corresponding ".txt" files, and want to preserve page/chapter breaks (ideally with the "Formfeed" control character)
I found "ebook-convert"s "--chapter-mark" option with the "pagebreak" parameter, but am unable to figure out from the documentation how this is intended to work and if it might do what I am trying to achieve.
When I run the command like
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ebook-convert "~/Book.epub" "~/Book.txt" --chapter-mark pagebreak
the command output shows the chapters detected in the Book.epub file, but in the generated Book.txt I can find nothing that can be interpreted as a pagebreak indicator.
This is running Calibre 9.2.1 on macOS 15
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Control
auto-detection of document structure.
I believe this is for the Input (source)
You selected .txt as an output .
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The form feed character is a control character in ASCII and Unicode, historically used to tell printers to advance to the start of the next page.
Key Details:
ASCII Code: Decimal 12, Hex 0x0C, Unicode U+000C
Escape Sequence in C/Java/Python: \f
Purpose:
In printers: Moves the print head to the top of the next page.
In text files: Acts as a page break or section separator.
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