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DSpider · 04-25-2011, 03:21 PM

If the PDF was saved as a tagged PDF then it should be able to reflow and keep all the original formatting if converted. Unfortunately most PDFs out there are just a collection of floating objects on a page, which makes it very difficult to convert. Often a word or a symbol would be off by half a point above or bellow a line and the conversion process would see it as a new paragraph... Then to get a closer match, you would have to do an OCR on the PDF and check that.

However, if you still have the original .rtf, .doc, .docx, etc., then you could save it as HTML and edit it with Sigil to turn it to EPUB.

Word 2010 can save it as a web page. If you went with .docx then you should probably save it with Word.

04-25-2011, 03:21 PM	#10
DSpider Evangelist Posts: 450 Karma: 343115 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Romania Device: PW2 2014	If the PDF was saved as a tagged PDF then it should be able to reflow and keep all the original formatting if converted. Unfortunately most PDFs out there are just a collection of floating objects on a page, which makes it very difficult to convert. Often a word or a symbol would be off by half a point above or bellow a line and the conversion process would see it as a new paragraph... Then to get a closer match, you would have to do an OCR on the PDF and check that. However, if you still have the original .rtf, .doc, .docx, etc., then you could save it as HTML and edit it with Sigil to turn it to EPUB. Word 2010 can save it as a web page. If you went with .docx then you should probably save it with Word. Last edited by DSpider; 04-25-2011 at 03:35 PM.